WAEC English 2018 Paper

Option B, “great,” is sometimes used in formal writing as “a great number of,” but “large” is the preferred and more common pattern in everyday English.Option C, “big,” usually describes physical size and does not fit naturally with “number” in this context.Option D, “huge,” suggests something extremely large and is not the usual collocation for “number.”Thus, only “large” completes the sentence correctly.Answer:A. large