<p>what was the skater one…i put the original</p>
<p>Same here.</p>
<p>“Although more inexperiend a skater, Emily blah blah…”</p>
<p>The first part is using the same construction as “She is too strict a teacher”, so I kept the original.</p>
<p>“Despite how” sounded appealing, but the sentence was very very long.</p>
<p>yea was ‘despite how’ choice B? i was debating between A and that one other very long sentence</p>
<p>Guys, the choice with “most” doesn’t work. You don’t have to know whether or not the book is among his earlier works. “Most among any” doesn’t work because of “any”; you can’t say it is the most unified among a singular number of novels. “Any” is not the same thing as “all”. The choice with “more” works because “A Farewell to Arms, critics agree, is more unified than any of Hemingway’s earlier works” uses “any” as if it refers to any single (undetermined) one of his earlier works, and it states that A Farewell to Arms is more unified than that one. Using “any” is comprehensive, and is appropriate only for the word “more” because it basically cycles through all of his earlier works sequentially.</p>
<p>Good job kiptok</p>
<p>/debate</p>
<p>We haz winnar.</p>
<p>That is to say, he’s right.</p>
<p>i think the hemingway question…the gramatically correct version has “more unified”…since “any of his earlier works”…any is a singular pronoun…am i correct?..so in actuality it is comparing farewell to arms to only one other book…</p>
<p>k then i lose. i now know that i got at least one wrong on the writing</p>
<p>He’s not necessarily correct, bballaz, there’s no need to accept it. </p>
<p>The New York Times:</p>
<p>“…Peyton Manning, who has connected on 57 touchdown passes with Harrison, the most among any active quarterback/receiver twosome.”</p>
<p>How does this vary from our sentence at hand (noting that it can be rearranged to "the most among any of the active quarterback/receiver twosomes)?</p>
<p>Guys wait…
Any can be singular or plural. Look at these examples.</p>
<p>Do you have any friends?
Is there any question?</p>
<p>So… i still think i could be right. If heming way novel was compared with any other novels then it would be plural right?</p>
<p>I found a similar example of “most among any” in the NY times as well, so guys, sadly (especially for me), the case is closed: it’s the MOST.</p>
<p>If it was “more than any other of Hemingway’s earlier novels,” I could definitely see more than as being correct.</p>
<p>any of hemingway’s earlier novels …any is singular…“of hemingway’s novels” is a prepositional phrase that has no effect…You guys are omitting the prepositional phrase in your examples…</p>
<p>I think it’s more.</p>
<p>it’s definitely Most…</p>
<p>More is always a comparison between 2 things. Most is a comparison of 3+. This rule is not a flexible one.</p>
<p>It depends on whether it was ‘the most of’, or ‘more than’. I would need to see the actual question to decide.</p>
<p>Actually, I am pretty sure I put down most because of the rule jcy2009 mentioned.</p>
<p>It was:</p>
<p>“the most among any of Hemingway’s earlier novels.”
and
“more than any of Hemingway’s earlier novels.”</p>
<p>Okay, you can’t just close the case because you found the words “most among any” in the NY Times. Are you guys just trying to apply grammar rules or are you looking at it from a reader’s standpoint as well? There are differences between this question and the Peyton Manning sentence; “of” makes “any” singular by adding on a limiting prepositional phrase. “Any” can be plural, but not when paired with “of”. The answer is “more”.</p>
<p>Can someone repost the sentence entirely? or roughly atleast? Is the debate between “no error” and “most/more” ?</p>