Question

The play was so bad that not _ people stayed until the end.​

Answer 1

The correct answer is all. The blank is filled as such: The play was so bad that not many people stayed until the end.

• Many is used for plural nouns.

• Since the people is a plural or mass noun. We have used many it as a pronoun.

• People is a countable noun as well. Generally, there are two types of nouns singular and plural nouns.