Apr 3, 2014 · Data has been ascii-ized, cases were merged and the number is the word count: These are 58600 of the most frequent words with a cutoff of 1553 mentions in the corpus.

Jul 7, 2015 · The adverbial use of the definite noun the most synonymous with the bare-adverbial most to modify an entire clause or predicate has been in use since at least the 1500s and is an integral part of English.

Oct 20, 2016 · In your 1st example, the head of the subject NP is the fused determiner-head 'most', not plural 'paperbacks'. ‘Most’ can occur with both singular and plural partitives, but here ‘that rack’ denotes a singular item and the matrix NP 'most of that rack' denotes a singular subpart of that item; hence singular agreement is correct, (cf. ‘Most of those paperbacks are trash’, …

Feb 20, 2014 · The first references to welcome are found in Beowolf. By 1300, “welcome” was being used more loosely to describe something acceptable, pleasurable, freely permitted, or cordially invited. From Othello: (circa 1603): Lodovico: Madam, good night; I humbly thank your ladyship. Desdemona: Your honour is most welcome. From the linked source: A reader found …

Oct 24, 2016 · Most is defined by the attributes you apply to it. "Most of your time" would imply more than half, "the most time" implies more than the rest in your stated set. Your time implies your total time, where the most time implies more than the rest. I …

Jan 29, 2012 · As well as the most common sense of convenient (i.e. suiting you, not causing you time or trouble), there is the related sense of close, near-by, as in " We stopped at a convenient gas-station " or " He picked up a convenient rock ". While the phrase convenient for you is much the more common of the two, it could be that convenient to you is more likely to be used with …

Oct 7, 2011 · The reason you (and, I believe, most Americans) use the singular in these examples is that you are only referring to one "staff" or "family". Would you say "The rest of the paintings is in storage"?

Dec 30, 2016 · Loosely, to ‘relate to’ is ‘to understand/sympathise with’ and can apply to people or animals, objects, situations of anything else. I suspect to ‘relate with’ is in most senses interchangeable with ‘meet with’, ie it’s recent, it comes from US English and because very loosely it means ‘interact with’ it generally applies only to people or animals.

Nov 7, 2013 · The question is: why did the English adapt the name pineapple from Spanish (which originally meant pinecone in English) while most European countries eventually adapted the name ananas, which came from the Tupi word nanas (also meaning pineapple).

May 22, 2020 · Is the use of "most good" ever correct? I know most good is just a dumb way of saying best, but I don't feel like best is the best option in this context (not even the "most good" option).