tailieunhanh - The grammar book teacher course part 108

Tham khảo tài liệu 'the grammar book teacher course part 108', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 756 The Grammar Book 7. Note that in most such cases it does not seem to make much difference whether and or oris used as the conjunction following than although a difference in meaning is possible and additional modifiers are sometimes used to suggest an additive rather than an alternative meaning for example Jill and Ann have more A s than B s and C s put together. 8. Another meaning of the form most that is not strictly superlative is the meaning of the quantifier most when used to express the notion of majority . Most of the voters were in favor of the measure . more voters were in favor than those who were not in favor . 9. The forms one and ones are the noun substitutes that occur most frequently with superlatives . the best one s 10. The only case where it is difficult to reconstruct an underlying noun is with adverbial use of the superlative . Roger behaves the most politely of all the boys . Ultimately one might perhaps argue that such a sentence is related to one with a noun paraphrase and that this relationship accounts for the presence of the Roger exhibits the most polite behavior of all the boys . However exploring such an analysis in detail is beyond the scope of this textbook. 11. Adverbs or adjectives that use un- or some other negative prefix to derive their negative polarity form are different from adjectives and adverbs that have preexisting polar opposites that are lexically distinct . big little . Whenever such overt negative prefixes are needed the tendency is to avoid the derived negative and to use feast with the stem form . least important rather than most with the derived negative . most unimportant however the latter pattern does occasionally occur Lester always seems to dwell on the most J unimportant 1 details. I uninteresting J 12. The phrase different than is acceptable in colloquial American English. In formal situations different from is preferred. Many speakers of British English do not find different than .