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Lucas21c Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

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Could you check whether the following sentence is right? Thank you.

He is the tallest of every student in his class.
  

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Tallest is a ‘superlative’, meaning that no one is taller, so it would be redundant to use ‘every’. "

  • Tallest is a ‘superlative’, meaning that no one is taller, so it would be redundant to use ‘every’.
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Tallest is a ‘superlative’, meaning that no one is taller, so it would be redundant to use ‘every’.
"He is the tallest student in his class."
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Then how about "He is the tallest of every friend of mine"?
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"He is the tallest of my friends."

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