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Liveinjapan Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

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He is most popular here.

He is the most popular here.

He is the most popular guy here.

Are they correct? Is an object needed in the second sentence? Is 'guy' omitted in the second sentence?

Thanks
LiJ
  

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Hi LiJ English is very inexact with regard to the superlative. All sentences can be considered correct. Strictly speaking, the first one should mean: He is very/extremely popular here since "the" is missing.

— Cool Breeze

  • Hi LiJ English is very inexact with regard to the superlative.
  • All sentences can be considered correct.
  • Strictly speaking, the first one should mean: He is very/extremely popular here since "the" is missing.
  • In other words, it's an absolute superlative.
  • : That was most kind of you!
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Hi LiJ

English is very inexact with regard to the superlative. All sentences can be considered correct. Strictly speaking, the first one should mean: He is very/extremely popular here since "the" is missing. In other words, it's an absolute superlative. Cf.: That was most kind of you!

However, people often understand it to be a relative superlative,
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Cool BreezeHi LiJ

English is very inexact with regard to the superlative. All sentences can be considered correct. Strictly speaking, the first one should mean: He is very/extremely popular here since "the" is missing. In other words, it's an absolute superlative. Cf.: That was most kind of you!

However, people often underst
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LiveinjapanAnother example of absolute suprelative is:

The lake is deepest here.

Right?
No, because there is comparison in your sentence: the lake is being compared with itself. I don't think I know a term for this superlative at all. Perhaps someone else can help. To read more about superlatives, see .

CB
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Hi CB

I understand thanks to your in-depth tought. I think Finnish is amazing.

Thank you very much.
LiJ
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