Directions : Each of the following sentences in this section has a blank space with four options. Select the most appropriate option to fill in the blank and indicate your response on the Answer Sheet accordingly.
______ people make their own bread today than in earlier times.
- ALesser
- BFewer
- CFew
- DLess
Explanation
The keyed answer selects (c) “Few”, reading the sentence as a plain statement that only a small number of people bake their own bread nowadays. Note: official key disputed — the word “than” turns this into a comparative construction. A comparative construction grammatically requires the comparative degree, so with the countable noun “people” the correct form is “Fewer people make their own bread today than in earlier times”. “Few … than” is ungrammatical, which makes (b) the linguistically correct choice.