"as best as"

sagehen sagehen at WESTELCOM.COM
Wed Jun 8 18:01:07 UTC 2005


arnold writes:
> in fact, "as best as" has the virtue of conforming syntactically to other
>uses of
>"as" + Adj, while things like "as best I can see" are syntactically rather
>odd.
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The oddity lies in its use with the superlative.  Can you think of any
other such cases ("as" + superl + "as")?  Or, simply, "as"+ superlative?
AM



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