Which is more appropriate to use more or most in the sentence: Some accounts claim that rattle snake was (more or most) poisonous than any other snake that lives on Earth.
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Which is more appropriate to use more or most in the sentence: Some accounts claim that rattle snake was (more or most) poisonous than any other snake that lives on Earth.
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The 'most' is the superlative degree.
So it can't be used with 'than' which follows 'more' (the comparative degree).
Have a look at this: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=most+poisonous+than%2C+more+poisonous+than&year_start=1800&year_end=2000&corpus=15&smoothing=3&share=&direct_url=t1%3B%2Cmore%20poisonous%20than%3B%2Cc0.
It shows the only usage of 'more ... than'.
The sentence with 'most' can be like this:
"Some accounts claim that rattle snake was the most poisonous snake on Earth."