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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

most vs almost

almost/ most everyone in our class was excited about the basket ball playoffs. Can you help me with this?
  

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Almost everyone in our class was excited about the basketball playoffs. I believe that most Americans don't use the simpler form except as in: most of [ the apples were rotten ].

— Philip

  • Almost everyone in our class was excited about the basketball playoffs.
  • I believe that most Americans don't use the simpler form except as in: most of [ the apples were rotten ].
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Almost everyone in our class was excited about the basketball playoffs. I believe that most Americans don't use the simpler form except as in: most of [ the apples were rotten ].
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Anonymousalmost/ most everyone in our class
Some native speakers mistakenly say "most" when they mean "almost".

You need "almost" in this case.

CJ
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