Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate option:

________ people live in the South than in the North of America.

• A. more
• B. most
• C. the most
• D. much
• E. many

Answer 1

Answer: (A)

more

An adjective that takes a comparison to the highest degree, a comparative adjective describes the difference between two items. Similarly in this case, comparison has been done between people of South America and North America.

much < more < most

Where much is positive, more is comparative and most is superlative.

This makes Option A correct.