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Anonymous

#385664 Fri, 29 Jun 07 10:33 AM

Good day ! I'm studying English here in Russia Smile [:)] ..And I have a question for everybody who will probably help me ))

Is there a possibility to say, for example, to a girl: "you're A most beautiful girl" .?.. Exactly "a" I mean. Because I don't mean that she is "the most beautiful of some other girls", the best among them. It is more like a description, characteristic - just "most beautiful"

Thank you for your attention !

Anonymous

Doll

#385723 Fri, 29 Jun 07 01:23 PM

I think you can't say a most beautiful girl.

Why don't you say you are the most beautiful girl I have ever seen to her? which may mean that she is not the most beautiful girl in this world or in Russia because you didn't see all the girls in the world or in Russia, so it will not mean that she is the most beautiful one of all.

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Clive

#385797 Fri, 29 Jun 07 02:39 PM

Hi,

I doubt that a girl you say this to will start analysing your grammar. Smile [:)] Why don't you just say 'You are the most beautiful girl in the world'?

Good luck, Clive

Clive

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Doll

#385798 Fri, 29 Jun 07 02:41 PM

Bu Clive he doesn't want to say this. Big Smile [:D]

Doll

Clive

#385856 Fri, 29 Jun 07 05:45 PM

It works for me. Wink [;)]

Clive

Bokeh

#385861 Fri, 29 Jun 07 06:01 PM

Hello Anon,

"You are a most beautiful girl" is perfect English. "Most" in this context is not forming the superlative but merely being used synonomously with a word such as "extremely" or "very": "You are an extremely beautiful girl" for example.

"A" is needed; the sentence doesn't work without it.

Bokeh

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Spain

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