Question

much to surprise ,I invited twenty friends to my dinner ,but ________came A：twice as many .

B：twice more than .为什么选择A呀？好象A语法不对呀，应该是twice as many as呀，B也不对呀？

Answer 1

选A，是因为，答案补充完整是twice as many as twenty friends , as ...as... 嘛！只不过A省略了as twenty friends， 而B呢，应该是more than twice 才对吧~