I am having a difficulty on what is the proper usage of more likely and most likely.
Is there any way to remember the difference between these two phrases easily?
On the following sentences below, which phrase to be used:
Janus is __________ to commit crime than Mike because Janus has a
history of mania.
Can you give brief explanation and examples?
Best Answer
When I was in Elementary school, our teacher taught us more in relationship to "greater" and "greatest".
You use "greater" to compare two people:
but if you're comparing to a lot of people you use "greatest":
In this case "more likely" relates to greater while "most likely" relates to greatest.
Because "more" is used when comparing two people, you would say:
However, if you wanted to use "most likely" you would say:
An easy way to remember is more ends with the "er" sound like "greater" and most ends with "st" just like "greatest". (It's caused a few spelling mistakes for me in the past, but it helped me to remember which one I wanted to use on tests).