Timeline for How To Correct: "My father likes playing gold best of all."
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| May 2, 2017 at 11:30 | comment | added | SovereignSun | As Merriam-Webster states Best of all is used to refer to the most important or appealing part of something that has many good parts. I would personally stick to "best" as a standalone word here. It's already a superlative. | |
| May 2, 2017 at 11:23 | answer | added | Teacher KSHuang | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 1, 2017 at 23:13 | comment | added | Adam | I prefer "My father likes playing golf best of all" over "my father likes playing golf best." The former very clearly expresses that the person in question prefers golfing over other activities or games. The latter leaves open a tiny possibility that the person in question likes being better at golf than other people are. | |
| May 1, 2017 at 23:04 | comment | added | Colin Fine | I don't find anything wrong with "best of all". They are perhaps objecting to it because it is tautologous, but it is a common phrase (6416 instances in the GloWbE corpus). | |
| May 1, 2017 at 21:03 | history | edited | Cardinal | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| May 1, 2017 at 20:59 | answer | added | Cardinal | timeline score: 0 | |
| May 1, 2017 at 20:49 | history | asked | Paul | CC BY-SA 3.0 |