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Christine Christie Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Adjectives

Is this sentence correct:



a) "Those words couldn't be least sensible."


b) "Those words couldn't be farther from being sensible."



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" The words are as nonsensical as can be. " That is grammatical and possible, but it would require an appropriate context, one in which its wordiness, understatement and elaborateness were assets rather than the prohibitive drawbacks they would normally be.

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  • " The words are as nonsensical as can be.
  • " That is grammatical and possible, but it would require an appropriate context, one in which its wordiness, understatement and elaborateness were assets rather than the prohibitive drawbacks they would normally be.
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Christine Christiea) "Those words couldn't be least sensible."

I think you mean "Those words couldn't be less sensible." The words are as nonsensical as can be.

Christine Christieb) "Those words couldn't be farther from being sensible."

That is grammatical and possible, but it would require an appropriate context,

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