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Aleksky Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Smallest Country

"the smallest country in population"

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Would "the smallest country" cause confuse? Should it be rewritten as:

"the smallest country in land area"
"the smallest country in population"
"the smallest country in GDP"

etc?
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alekskyShould it be rewritten as:
I must be going blind. I can't see the difference! Emotion: sad
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Then "the smallest country in population" = "the smallest country" ?
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In my opinion, "The smallest country" would be taken to mean the one with the smallest area -- without further context.

Aha! I see what happened.
Your thread title was doubling as the first part of your question.
(That's been happening a lot lately!)
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