Complete the sentence: There were as _____ as 200 people at a poorly attended match.

Complete the sentence: There were as _____ as 200 people at a poorly attended match.

• A. Many
• B. Some
• C. Few
• D. Hundreds

Answer: (C)

The skill tested here is using the “as … as” construction to talk about numbers and to emphasize smallness or largeness. When the context describes a poor turnout, you want to highlight how low the attendance is. “As few as” does that by signaling a surprisingly small amount. So “There were as few as 200 people” paints the turnout as not many, which fits the idea of a poorly attended match. Other options don’t fit the sense of the sentence. “As many as” would suggest a large turnout, contradicting the context. “As some as” isn’t natural English, and “as hundreds as” isn’t a correct form.

The skill tested here is using the “as … as” construction to talk about numbers and to emphasize smallness or largeness. When the context describes a poor turnout, you want to highlight how low the attendance is. “As few as” does that by signaling a surprisingly small amount. So “There were as few as 200 people” paints the turnout as not many, which fits the idea of a poorly attended match.

Other options don’t fit the sense of the sentence. “As many as” would suggest a large turnout, contradicting the context. “As some as” isn’t natural English, and “as hundreds as” isn’t a correct form.