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by: arthurvv vart - Tue, 26 Dec 2023 11:51 UTC

1) She finishes the tests the fastest of any student.
2) She finishes the tests the fastest of all students.

1) She finishes the tests the fastest of any of our students.
2) She finishes the tests the fastest of all of our students.

Which of the above sentences are grammatically correct?

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Navi

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Interested in structures on the margins of grammaticality
Obsessed with ambiguity

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by: Snidely - Tue, 26 Dec 2023 19:55 UTC

Remember when arthurvv vart bragged outrageously? That was Tuesday:
> 1) She finishes the tests the fastest of any student.
> 2) She finishes the tests the fastest of all students.
>
> 1) She finishes the tests the fastest of any of our students.
> 2) She finishes the tests the fastest of all of our students.
>
> Which of the above sentences are grammatically correct?

I don't like any of them, but I don't see anything /wrong/ with them.

/dps "She finishes tests faster than the rest of our students"

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by: Jerry Friedman - Tue, 26 Dec 2023 20:16 UTC

On Tuesday, December 26, 2023 at 12:55:39 PM UTC-7, Snidely wrote:
> Remember when arthurvv vart bragged outrageously? That was Tuesday:
> > 1) She finishes the tests the fastest of any student.
> > 2) She finishes the tests the fastest of all students.
> >
> > 1) She finishes the tests the fastest of any of our students.
> > 2) She finishes the tests the fastest of all of our students.
> >
> > Which of the above sentences are grammatically correct?
> I don't like any of them, but I don't see anything /wrong/ with them.

I agree.
> /dps "She finishes tests faster than the rest of our students"

Or "... than the other students."

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by: Hibou - Thu, 28 Dec 2023 17:15 UTC

Le 26/12/2023 à 20:16, Jerry Friedman a écrit :
> On Tuesday, December 26, 2023 at 12:55:39 PM UTC-7, Snidely wrote:
>> Remember when arthurvv vart bragged outrageously? That was Tuesday:
>>>
>>> 1) She finishes the tests the fastest of any student.
>>> 2) She finishes the tests the fastest of all students.
>>>
>>> 1) She finishes the tests the fastest of any of our students.
>>> 2) She finishes the tests the fastest of all of our students.
>>>
>>> Which of the above sentences are grammatically correct?
>>
>> I don't like any of them, but I don't see anything /wrong/ with them.
>
> I agree.
>
>> /dps "She finishes tests faster than the rest of our students"
>
> Or "... than the other students."

I think the problem with the originals is that they contain a curious
jump from the verbal to the nominal. IMHO, it would be better to focus
on one or the other:

/She does the tests more quickly/ than the other students.

/She's faster than the other students/ at doing the tests.

The Ranger isn't gonna like it, Yogi.

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