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Consider this sentence:

This is the best book I have ever read.

Now if I transform this into a sentence and use positive degree as

  • Never have I read a book as good as this.

Is this sentence correct and complete or do I have to add 'one' at the end? Then the sentence would be

  • Never have I read a book as good as this one.
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    Does this answer your question? "This one is" OR "This is". In 'this one', 'this' is used as a demonstrative (proximal) 'determiner'/'determinative', singling out which one. But this works just as well on its own, and its part of speech here is demonstrative pronoun. Look these up in a dictionary. – Edwin Ashworth Feb 12 '20 at 16:11
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    More succinctly, and without the "poetic / literary" deviation from normal English word order, *I have never read a book this good*. – FumbleFingers Feb 12 '20 at 16:42

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