It really just depends upon context. However, they do have different meanings. I’ve always been taught the first one as it sounds like a comparative "It is better to stay here (than to go away)"
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Your original is correct as-is, except you need to remove the question mark at the end because it’s not a question. My question is, what is the correct way to write this clause? I am not clear on the last bit of the sentence, "which one is the best". Which is correct, "I like you the best" or "I like you best"? This is correct even if Mr. Smith is still working as a teacher, as long as the speaker’s relationship to Mr. Smith has changed. In the context of a person, use "is" if the person is still in the role/relationship you are talking about, and "was" if they’re not in that role/relationship anymore.
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It may be confusing because sometimes, "experienced" is also used as an adjective (meaning expert) (link). A question word can function as subject, object, complement or adverbial. In that context, the phrase the best can also be used as if it were an adverb.
- When used in the past, it may include the present, or it may only include the time up to that point in the past.
- "Ever" means "of all time", but the exact meaning changes with the tense.
- However, sometimes grammar demands one or the other.
- This makes the singular word "one" completely out of the question.
- Should we stay here, go home, go bowling, or go to a movie?
Answer 1
Can somebody clear me on how to use this word as an adverb and the appropriate structure with it? To answer your first question, yes, both sentences are correct. In your sentence, which is the subject, so no inversion takes place. When the subject and the auxiliary verb are swapped over, it’s called inversion. I hope we can both agree this sentence is wrong because "good" is an adjective, and cannot be the subject of "is".
Is it wrong to say that we can use or omit "the" before "best" with an adverb findmsinteractive.info without any change of meaning, but when we use "most" with an adverb, the meaning of the sentence changes? As you said, the subject of the sentence is plural, and the verb "are", reflects this (as apposed to "is"). Is the use of "one" correct in the above sentence since the subject is plural (Honda and Toyota)?
No, technically the use of "one" is incorrect, yet such a phrase is common in most American English speech. In your example "experienced" is the verb that is receiving best. Best here is used as an adverb as it provides the description of the experience of watching sport (verb) "at the place where the match is unfolding.".
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However, sometimes grammar demands one or the other. In many sentences it will not matter if "best" or "the best" is used. Either is acceptable, and the practical meaning is the same, but their referents, implicit not explicit, are different. In an answer on englishforums.com it says that both are exactly the same.
This makes the singular word "one" completely out of the question. A couple examples of how to construct the sentence would be "Honda and Toyota are two of the best selling car makers in the US." or "Honda and Toyota are each one of the best selling car makers in the US." I realize i could put "two" or "some" instead but wouldn’t the meaning change slightly?
You are correct in saying is a comparison to, for example, going away. Should we stay here, go home, go bowling, or go to a movie? Some would say that the first sentence would be better when there are only two options. In fact, it would actually sound weird to say, "It is the best to stay here."