Question

What is wrong with the answer choices to the question: How much did you like your statistics course this semester?
A) Not at all
B) A lot
C) It was awesome

Answer 1

Hint: The given question suggests that the speaker is asking a question about the liking of a statistics course to the listener. The liking is asked in terms of ‘how much’, which is used with uncountable nouns. Since liking is an uncountable noun, our answer will also be in accordance to this. We will see which option is not correct with reference to the question “how much”.

Complete answer:
Let us discuss each option individually in detail to figure out the answer which is not correct with the answer choices to the given question.

A) Not at all: “Not at all” is used to say no in a strong manner. It emphasises on the disagreement with something. This answer to the question “ How much did you like your statistics course this semester”, will not be wrong if the listener did not like the course at all. Therefore, this is not the answer we are looking for.

B) A lot: “A lot” is a way of expressing something to a great extent. If someone asks “how much did you like your statistics course this semester”, this answer would not be wrong if someone liked the course very much. Therefore, this is not the answer we are looking for.

C) It was awesome: “It was awesome” is a declarative sentence that is an answer to a question “how was it”, this answer does not refer to the answer to an uncountable noun. Therefore, this answer option is unfit.

Hence, the correct answer is option ‘C’

Note: Questions need to be answered in the sense they are asked. For example: “How much” refers to quantitative questions, the answer depends on the countable/uncountable noun. The question “how was” refers to the qualitative questions, it needs to answered in terms of its quality. Example: Q: How was your day?
A: It was awesome.