Least is used when comparing at least two other things. Higher and lower are comparative, even though high and low are not. low-lower-lowest. average-less-least. The lowest price is a price …

2014年10月25日 · I can find no grammatical ruling for the need to use 'very' with 'least'. I believe it is simply a personal choice and possibly implies emphasis. For example; [Exasperated parent …

2019年8月9日 · well for one thing it goes low, lower, least. If you talking about a species of animals, I would say "What species has the least amount of predators". If it was between two …

2018年6月14日 · Her little dog, Toto, has snapped at at least three bicyclists in the past month. As other answerers have pointed out, the phrase "differ at" may sound less natural than "differ on" …

2013年3月15日 · The rephrasing also helps clarify a more subtle point about the original sentence in question here. "At least" is taken as definitive, precise, and indicative of a specific point in a …

2024年11月25日 · I'm in the same boat. I have a fairly new HP netbook with a 64GB SDD for C drive and there is no way I can clear 40GB of space, I have no apps installed on the C drive, …

When using small, no other size needs to be explicitly considered. When using smaller, there must be a point of comparison, and generally only two choices. If there were more than two, …

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Note that my approximate above use of the phrase is NOT in fact the same 'figure of speech" and is LIGHTLY negative. But "It was/is the least that I could do" is almost invariably used in a …

2022年1月2日 · 'Last but not least' is a compound pragmatic marker, twinning ordering-within-the-article ('last') and emphasis/highlighting (the litotes 'not least'). – Edwin Ashworth Commented …