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Shinya Maki
11-28-2005, 05:00 PM
Hello everyone.

Is the sentence below grammatically correct?

In his class he has the most friends.

Best regards,
Shinya Maki
Rusty
11-28-2005, 06:30 PM
Hello everyone.

Is the sentence below grammatically correct?

In his class he has the most friends.

Best regards,
Shinya Maki
(It's grammatically correct, but it is ambiguous. I don't know if he has more friends than anybody else in his class, or if most of his friends are people in his class).
Shinya Maki
11-28-2005, 11:42 PM
(I don't know if he has more friends than anybody else in his class, or if most of his friends are people in his class).

Sorry, Rusty. I mean "he has more friends than anybody else in his class."

Shinya Maki
ponpoco256
11-29-2005, 10:46 AM
"Tom has three friends, Ed has five, and Jim has six".
"Tom has three friends, Ed has more, and Jim has the most".
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"Who has the most friends, Tom, Ed, or Jim?" .
"Jim has the most friends among them"

"Jim has the most friends in his class"
"Jim has most of his friends in his class"

Humm.. an interesting question
Temico
11-30-2005, 01:34 PM
"Jim has the most friends in his class" = (1) "Jim has the most friends (who are) in his class = (2) "Jim has the most friends (compared to others) in his class." (1) & (2) differ in meaning, therefore the original sentence is ambiguous.

"Jim has most of his friends in his class" = "Of Jim’s friends, most are in his class." ( sentence can only have one meaning and is therefore not ambiguous)