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Rachel
Any difference between“love most” and “love the most”? Thanks!
For example,
What kind of animal do you love most?
VS
What kind of animal do you love the most?
And which one sounds more authentic?
21 giu 2020 08:20
Risposte · 2
In this example, I think leaving out "the" sounds more natural.
Be careful, as sometimes "the" is not appropriate, for example you should say "most of the time I go fishing alone", not "the most of the time I go fishing alone" - I think it's quite rare for sentences to have two 'thes' in it
21 giugno 2020
You can use either. Adding the extra "the" is a style choice, and both are fully acceptable grammatically and widely used. To my ear, the extra "the" gives you a little, unstressed syllable between the (quite strong) "love" and the very strong "most", so it adds a little to the poetic rhythm. But very many people leave it out and use just "which do you love most?"
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=love+most%2C+love+the+most&year_start=1800&year_end=2008&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Clove%20most%3B%2Cc0%3B.t1%3B%2Clove%20the%20most%3B%2Cc0
21 giugno 2020
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Rachel
Competenze linguistiche
Cinese (mandarino), Cinese (cantonese), Inglese, Spagnolo
Lingua di apprendimento
Inglese, Spagnolo
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