ExtraBase - by Le Nogueira: QUANTIFIERS

QUANTIFIERS

 

INCREASE From 0% to 100%
With plural countable nouns:
many	more	most
With uncountable nouns:
much	more	most

DECREASE From 100% to 0%
With plural countable nouns:
few	fewer	fewest
With uncountable nouns:
little	less	least

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Examples

There are many people in England, more in India, but the most people live in China.
Much time and money is spent on education, more on health services but the most is spent on national defence.
Few rivers in Europe are not polluted.
Fewer people die young now than in the seventeenth century.
The country with the fewest people per square kilometre must be Australia.
Scientists have little hope of finding a complete cure for cancer before the year 2,000.
She had less time to study than Paul but had better results.
Give that dog the least opportunity and it will bite you.

SOURCE: edufind.com/english/grammar

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I took an explanation from an online FORUM discussion
[ usingenglish.com ]

Which of these two movies did you like more?
This compares two movies.

Which movies did you like the most/ most?
This compares more than two movies.
"Most" and "the most" mean the same thing.
Which movies did you like the best/best?
This means the same as example 2.
"Best" and "the best" mean the same thing.

Can I use "the best" / "the most" / "best" / "most" indifferently?
No, but you can use them interchangeably.
because "Indifferent to" means "uncaring about" or "not concerned with":
She was indifferent to the hunger of the workers' children. =)

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Most vs. Most of the

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