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Huệ Lê Posted 6 years ago
Essay & Composition Writing

Ielts Writing task 1 - Please give me some advice on my writing

In your examples, the word "northernmost" means an place located furthest towards the north, and if I say " the northernmost gym", it will mean that the other gym.

If I say the northernmost gym of the sports building, whether it will be understood the gym being in the picture?

  

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Hu? Lê: when you use this pattern "the + superlative + noun", you are implying more than one instance of the noun exist. For example, The youngest girl in the class is Susan.

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  • Lê: when you use this pattern "the + superlative + noun", you are implying more than one instance of the noun exist.
  • For example, The youngest girl in the class is Susan.
  • [ more than one girl] The heaviest book on the shelf weighs 3 kg.
  • [ more than one book] The tallest man here is Victor.
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Hu? Lê: when you use this pattern "the + superlative + noun", you are implying more than one instance of the noun exist.

For example,

The youngest girl in the class is Susan. [ more than one girl]

The heaviest book on the shelf weighs 3 kg. [ more than one book]

The tallest man here is Victor. [ more than one man]

The northernmost gym ....

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