She saw a lot of flats, but there weren't ___ that she liked.

She saw a lot of flats, but there weren't ___ that she liked.

• A. Some
• B. Any
• C. Many
• D. Few

Answer: (B)

When the sentence uses a negative verb like weren’t, English typically uses any to talk about the existence of items. Here, the idea is that there were zero flats she liked among all she saw, so the natural choice is there weren’t any flats that she liked. Any signals that none of them fit her taste. Other options don’t fit the same way. Some is usually used in positive statements (there were some flats she liked), not in negative ones. Many could be used to say there weren’t many she liked, but that doesn’t emphasize zero as clearly, and it would shift the meaning away from the idea that none of the flats matched her taste. Few would be awkward here because it would require a different construction to convey the intended meaning.

When the sentence uses a negative verb like weren’t, English typically uses any to talk about the existence of items. Here, the idea is that there were zero flats she liked among all she saw, so the natural choice is there weren’t any flats that she liked. Any signals that none of them fit her taste.

Other options don’t fit the same way. Some is usually used in positive statements (there were some flats she liked), not in negative ones. Many could be used to say there weren’t many she liked, but that doesn’t emphasize zero as clearly, and it would shift the meaning away from the idea that none of the flats matched her taste. Few would be awkward here because it would require a different construction to convey the intended meaning.