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[darkcity]

Koreans often say "Most of Koreans don't have time"

so I correct them, "Most Koreans don't have time"

is there a hard and fast rule when you can and can't use "of"?

For example, you can say "Most of the time, I am hungry"

or "Most chairs are broken"

and "Most of the chairs are broken."

The closest a coworker and I could come is that the "the" makes it more specific, and therefore you'd use "of"

Like "Most apples taste good"

"Most of those apples taste good"

Help?

[Ya-ta Boy]

Once again, Dave's ESL Cafe comes to the rescue:

http://www.eslcafe.com/grammar/more_on_of06.html

Special Notes:

1. Two of the quantifiers above can be used
without of:

all of the answers / all the answers

both of their children / both their children