A determiner is a word, such as a number, article, personal pronoun, that determines (limits) the meaning of a noun phrase. some determiners can only be used with either a countable noun or an uncountable noun, while others, like most, can be used with both countable and uncountable nouns Your time implies your total time, where the most time implies more than. Since most of _____ is a prepositional phrase, the correct usage would be most of whom. the phrase most of who should probably never be used
most, most of, the most - Test-English
Another way to think about the difference between the subjective/objective pronouns is to revise the sentence to include a personal pronoun and see which form (he/him or she/her or they/them) fit.
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I've recently come across a novel called a most wanted man, after which being curious i found a tv episode called a most unusual camera Could someone shed some light on how to use a most and wh. Here most means a plurality Most dentists recommend colgate toothpaste
Here it is ambiguous about whether there is a bare majority or a comfortable majority From the 2nd language log link I searched on google for the pattern most * percent, and picked out of the first 150 hits all the examples like these: During most of history, humans were too busy to think about thought
Why is most of history correct in the above sentence
I could understand the difference between most of the people and most In your example, books are what you have read most, so i would agree that in diagrammatic reasoning most of what you've read are books Of all of the various materials i've read, most are books Therefore, because most refers to books, and books is a plural noun, i'm sorry to say that your friend is correct.
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
