QuickSand wrote:
> Whom do you admire the most?
>
> In the above sentence, I think 'the most' is an adverb.
>
> I've learned that we don't use 'the' in front of a superlative
adverb.
> Then, why do we use 'the most' in the example? What would be wrong
> with 'Whom do you admire most?'?
Nothing wrong with it at all. It's just that the version with "the"
is a normal alternative idiom, though one which I would treat as
informal.
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Mike.
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