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Tenacious Learner Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Question

Hi Teachers,

The best answer has to be circle. I know option 'c' is the best one. But, could this option be changed for another one?

Forty-six percent of all Americans means

a. most Americans

b. all Americans

c. some Americans

Thanks in advance
  

Top answer

Well, you could replace it with "many Americans" and it would still be true.

— CSnyder

  • Well, you could replace it with "many Americans" and it would still be true.
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Well, you could replace it with "many Americans" and it would still be true.
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Hi CSnyder,

Thank you very much for you reply.

Many means ' a big number of'.

Most means 'the majority of'.

So 'most' always indicates a greater number than many, doesn't it?

TS
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Yes.

The hierarchy for all the quantity words that have been used so far in the thread would be:

some < many < majority = most < all
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Hi again,

Thank you for the explanation and for the word 'hierarchy'. I didn't know this one in English. Emotion: wink

TS
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