Re: "like the most" vs "like most"
- From: Jim Lawton <usenet1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2005 08:04:54 GMT
On 4 Oct 2005 16:01:17 -0700, "mawolf@xxxxxxxxx" <mawolf@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>A non-native speaker working on a homework assignment ran
>something she had written by me. In one sentence, she wasn't sure
>whether she should have written "the part I like most" or
>"the part I like the most".
>
>I'm not sure either. I told her not to worry about it, because
>she will be understood either way, but it made me wonder.
>
>My preference is to use the former, because it's shorter.
>
>What do you think?
If I were writing, or speaking, I would go for the one which, in context,
sounded most euphonious.
--
Jim
the polymoth
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