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Anonymous Posted 9 years ago
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Best and the best

If you like sth best or like it the best, you prefer it. The thing I liked best about the show was the music... What was the role you loved the best? Adv-SUPERL

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There is no meaning difference between The thing I liked best and The thing I liked the best?

  

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Anonymous There is no meaning difference between The thing I liked best and The thing I liked the best? You need an adverbial to modify 'liked' in your sentence. Grammatically speaking, 'the best' can't modify 'like' because it's a noun phrase.

  • Anonymous There is no meaning difference between The thing I liked best and The thing I liked the best?
  • You need an adverbial to modify 'liked' in your sentence.
  • Grammatically speaking, 'the best' can't modify 'like' because it's a noun phrase.
  • So, the only correct grammatical version is 'The thing I liked best...
  • '.
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AnonymousThere is no meaning difference between The thing I liked best and The thing I liked the best?

You need an adverbial to modify 'liked' in your sentence.

Grammatically speaking, 'the best' can't modify 'like' because it's a noun phrase.

So, the only correct grammatical version is 'The thing I liked best... '.

However, both of them a

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