<p>already a mistake <em>grammar</em>
sorry</p>
<p>The sentence said:
Their most frequent enemy was the Sherrif…
but the answer is frequent not most frequent. Why is that?</p>
<p>Well I’ll take a stab at this, but I’m no grammar whiz. If someone was the “most” frequent enemy, they would have to be compared to other enemies in the sentence.</p>
<p>For example, say that someone is 8 feet tall. You wouldn’t just say “He is the tallest.” You have to provide a context for comparision, saying something such as, “He is the tallest man in the world.” </p>
<p>So, as a simplified list:
words like more, less, taller, shorter, larger, and bigger compare exactly 2 things
words like most, least, tallest, shortest, largest, and biggest compare 3 or more things.</p>
<p>I don’t have access to whatever passage your talking about, however, and context is very important. If there was just a paragraph talking about a bunch of “frequent enemies,” then I don’t know what to say.</p>
<p>Easy. It’s just the matter of redundancy. Most and frequent nearly mean the same thing, right?</p>
<p>^^^ rob and slowpoke are both right.. redundancy is probably what the ACT people were after, but rob’s explanation can also work</p>
<p>the redundancy ones are my favs</p>