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Anonymous Posted 11 years ago
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The or not? That is the question.
Fellow editor and I are having a disagreement about this sentence:
"A portfolio consisting of 15 most popular small-cap stock picks among the funds we track..."
I say it needs the definite article "the" in front of 15, he doesn't seem to think so. What do others think?
"A portfolio consisting of 15 most popular small-cap stock picks among the funds we track..."
I say it needs the definite article "the" in front of 15, he doesn't seem to think so. What do others think?
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If "the" is omitted then "most popular" would have to mean "very popular" rather than referring to a ranking, which seems quite a strain to me in this context. It seems very likely that it should be "the 15 most popular" or "15 of the most popular" if it is not necessarily exactly the top-ranked 15.
- If "the" is omitted then "most popular" would have to mean "very popular" rather than referring to a ranking, which seems quite a strain to me in this context.
- It seems very likely that it should be "the 15 most popular" or "15 of the most popular" if it is not necessarily exactly the top-ranked 15.
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If "the" is omitted then "most popular" would have to mean "very popular" rather than referring to a ranking, which seems quite a strain to me in this context. It seems very likely that it should be "the 15 most popular" or "15 of the most popular" if it is not necessarily exactly the top-ranked 15.
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