Question

Fill in the blank with the most appropriate word.
Smoking is a ________ habit.

• A. badly
• B. worse
• C. worst
• D. bad

Answer 1

The correct option is D bad

If we look at this sentence, it only talks about smoking, There is no comparison as only one habit is taken into consideration. Thus, this will be a positive degree of the adjective. Positive degree is the base form of the adjective or adverb. It does not show comparison.

Option A: Is an adverb.

Option B: "worse" is a word that is taken in a negative sense but it should be taken into consideration when there are two habits present. It is the comparative degree of "bad"

Option C: "worst" is a word that is taken in a negative sense but it should be taken into consideration when there are more than two habits present. It is a superlative degree of the adjective "bad".

Option D: "Bad" is the correct answer as it is taken in the negative sense and also a positive degree.

Option D is correct