If you say on the form "I think Fred is a very good candidate", you are inevitably comparing Fred to somebody else or some other people, and you are probably not comparing him to โ€ฆ "The better" is a superlative that only applies when comparing two people or things. "The best" is not wrong when comparing just two, but "the better" makes clear that the comparison is โ€ฆ As so often with this sort of question, we probably wouldnโ€™t phrase it that way in the first place. Iโ€™m comparing A and B in terms of their functionality. Iโ€™m comparing the functionality of A and โ€ฆ

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