2018年10月19日 · I'm not a native speaker, and my teacher taught me to use "the biggest number of . . ." when comparing amounts of some things, but I've checked it in google which seems like "the largest, the greatest, the highest, and even the most number of. . ." are actually used more often. 1. Which do we usually use for comparing numbers or amounts of some things? Let's say, if there were 3 cities. 1,000 ...

To my mind, the largest is the one with the greatest surface area, the biggest may have a smaller surface area but be deeper and therefore contain more water...and be 'bigger'.

2015年5月27日 · a) 7 is the smallest and 9 is the greatest number or b) 7 is the smallest and 9 is the largest number The research so far indicates that both terms largest and greatest are used in educational material. Largest implies size, but greater implies value, so greater seems more appropriate when dealing with abstract concepts.

2022年10月6日 · For the first pie chart I can definitely say: The majority of students in the class are between 30 and 35. What about the second pie chart? In the second pie chart the largest portion is less than 50%. Can I still consider the group "c" as majority in it?

2020年2月15日 · In technical and common parlance, the phrase "chronological order" indicates that the items are in order of occurrence or creation, oldest first (being the first in the chronology). So it's [ 1997, 1998, 1999 ] and not [ 1999, 1998, 1997 ]. Ordering most recent first as in the example given in the question is called reverse chronological …

She doesn't has a book. She doesn't have a book. Why is the first sentence wrong? We use 'has' with singular, and 'she' is singular.

2011年4月24日 · Dinner is considered to be the "main" or largest meal of the day. Whether it takes place at noon or in the evening is mostly a cultural thing. For instance, many people who grew up in the American South and/or on farms traditionally ate larger meals at noontime to give them the strength to keep working through the afternoon. Supper is more specifically a lighter evening meal. Rooted in the ...

2018年2月28日 · There are about 10-12 co-workers who directly report to me in office. It's a private company but of very large size. They are Junior to me in terms of experience and also are below me in Organisa...

2016年4月29日 · This Ngram comparing huge/hugest with large/largest appears to show that the relative usage of the respective superlative forms are roughly proportional. But in reality, as Peter Shor notes with a much clearer Ngram, the usage of hugest vs huge is tiny compared with the usage of largest vs large.

I frequently see statements that refer to something later in the text that use a phrase such as "the below information". Is it more correct instead to say "the information below" (or "the following