{"id":1699,"date":"2016-12-12T16:33:59","date_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2016-12-12T16:33:59","modified_gmt":"2016-12-12T16:33:59","slug":"the-with-superlatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/the-with-superlatives\/","title":{"rendered":"The with superlatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Superlative adjectives<\/strong> normally take the article <strong>the.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She is<strong> the tallest<\/strong> girl in the class. (NOT She is tallest girl in the class.)<\/li>\n<li>This is<strong> the best book<\/strong> I have read. (NOT This is best book I have read.)<\/li>\n<li>Greenland is <strong>the largest<\/strong> island in the world.<\/li>\n<li>You are <strong>the most miserable<\/strong> creature in the whole universe. (NOT You are most miserable \u2026)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>When superlative adjectives or adverbs come in the predicative position, <strong>\u2018the\u2019<\/strong> is sometimes dropped in an informal style.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Which of these boys is <strong>the smartest?\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Which of these boys is<strong> smartest?<\/strong> (informal)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>\u2018The\u2019<\/strong> is not used with superlative adjectives or adverbs used in predicative position when we compare the same person or thing in different situations.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He works<strong> hardest<\/strong> when he is doing something for his children. (Here we are comparing a man\u2019s work in different situations.) (NOT He works the\u00a0<span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">hardest\u2026)<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Superlative adjectives normally take the article the. She is the tallest girl in the class. (NOT She is tallest girl in the class.) This is the best book I have read. (NOT This is&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[363],"class_list":["post-1699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-superlatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1700,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions\/1700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}