Timeline for Your daughter has the best complexion ( from/of/ than) any girl in the college
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| Oct 4, 2022 at 20:09 | comment | added | Michael Kay | And Dickens uses it: "‘Use and necessity are good teachers, as I have heard—the best of any,’ said the blind man...". From Barnaby Rudge. | |
| Oct 4, 2022 at 20:03 | comment | added | Michael Kay | The phrase "highest of any" occurs 837 times in Wikipedia, and "best of any" 178 times. So it might be wrong, but it's not uncommon. | |
| Jun 24, 2017 at 20:08 | comment | added | Philip Roe | "Best complexion of all the girls", but "better complexion than any girl" | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 14:27 | comment | added | G-Cam | yes it is. ........ | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 14:13 | vote | accept | user212388 | ||
| Jun 15, 2017 at 14:13 | comment | added | user212388 | so the correct sentence is - Your daughter has the best complexion of all girls in the college | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 14:13 | comment | added | user212388 | Yes correct! That's what I too had mentioned in the post that we use 'of' with superlative degree but unlike your answer that was a terse statement, I appreciate your writing such a long answer but except your 1st paragraph rest answer wasn't relevant here as I had already mentioned in question that I know this grammar rule but anyway your 1st paragraph cleared my doubt, I mentioned that to my ears the part after complexion was sounding weird, its because I need to use all in place of any in the sentence, | |
| Jun 15, 2017 at 13:58 | history | answered | G-Cam | CC BY-SA 3.0 |