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Safrar Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Festivals by communities

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In this town, May is when we have the most number of festivals held by communities.
  

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Thank you, Aspara Gus. I would like to ask this as well. If I omit 'held,' does the sentence still work?
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SafrarIf I omit 'held,' does the sentence still work?
I don’t think so. Without held, by seems to mean “near”.
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To me, number of seems redundant, since the most already means the greatest number of when used with a count noun.

For example:

Who has the most subscribers on YouTube?
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Okay. Thank you to both of you for the very helpful replies!
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