Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option:
Which question do you think is ______ difficult one?
 a. much
b. more
c. the most
d. most

Answer 1

Hint: The student should go through the options carefully after reading the sentence to understand what the sentence implies. This will help the student in finding the right answer for the given question.

Complete answer:
Let us analyze the options given to us in this question -
Option (a.), 'much', refers to ‘to a great degree or extent’. Therefore, option (a.) is incorrect as we need a superlative since the question is referring to the question which is the highest level of difficulty.
Option (b.), ‘more', refers to ‘(comparative of `much' used with mass nouns) a quantifier meaning greater in size or amount or extent or degree’. Therefore, option (b.) is incorrect as we need a superlative since the question is referring to the question which is the highest level of difficulty.
Option (c.), ‘the most', refers to ‘the’ the definite article and ‘most’ which refers to ‘very; used to form the superlative’. Therefore, option (c.) is correct as it uses the article ‘the’ for specific reference and also forms a superlative.
Option (d.), ‘most', refers to ‘very; used to form the superlative’.Therefore, option (d.) is incorrect as the given question needs a specific reference, and thus, it also needs an article along with the superlative which is not present in this option.

Note:
 In this question, it will be helpful for the student to recall the concept of superlative degree. Superlative degree refers to the superlative form of an adjective or adverb. For example- `fastest' is the superlative of the adjective `fast'.