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Lucas21c Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Superlative

Are both of the following sentences okay?

1. My son eats most in my family.
2. Tom eats most amonf all my friends.
  

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Within the context of a discussion of your son’s appetite , the first sentence needs “the” before the word “most”. If, instead, the discussion were about where your son eats his meals, the words “most in” should be “mostly with”. The second sentence (I assume ‘amonf’ is a typo and should read ‘among’): Then, the two interpretations would be the same… If about appetite, insert “the” before “most”.

— Wilpeter

  • Within the context of a discussion of your son’s appetite , the first sentence needs “the” before the word “most”.
  • If, instead, the discussion were about where your son eats his meals, the words “most in” should be “mostly with”.
  • The second sentence (I assume ‘amonf’ is a typo and should read ‘among’): Then, the two interpretations would be the same… If about appetite, insert “the” before “most”.
  • If about location, “most” becomes “mostly”.
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Within the context of a discussion of your son’s appetite, the first sentence needs “the” before the word “most”.
If, instead, the discussion were about where your son eats his meals, the words “most in” should be “mostly with”.
The second sentence (I assume ‘amonf’ is a typo and should read ‘among’):
Then, the two interpretations would be the same…
If about appetite,
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What I want to say with #1 is the quantity that my son usually eats. That is to say, no one can eat as much as my son in my family.
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lucas21c1. My son eats the most in my family.2. Of all my friends Tom eats the most. amonf all my friends.
You need the article "the" because the noun "food" is implied. "the most food" ~ "the greatest amount of food". If you say "most", it
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1. Then "My son eats the most food in my family" is also okay?

2. The reason why you move "of all my friends" to the very front of the sentence is that the connection between"the most" and "of all my friends" is not good and may cause misunderstaings, right? If so, is "Tom eats the most food among all my friends" not good, either?
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lucas21c1. Then "My son eats the most food in my family" is also okay?
Yes, that's OK.
lucas21c2. The reason why you move "of all my friends" to the very front of the sentence is that the connection between"the most" and "of all my friends" is not good and may cause misunderstaings, right?
No, not really. The reason is that
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I see. Thank you very much for your help!
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I forgot to ask one thing. Could you tell me which one is right between "My son eats as much as me in my family" or "My son eats as much food as me in my family"?
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lucas21cI forgot to ask one thing. Could you tell me which one is right between "My son eats as much as me in my family" or "My son eats as much food as me in my family"?
Both are good.

CJ
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