Direction: In the following questions some of the sentences have errors and some have none. Find out which part of a sentence has an error. The number of that part is your answer. If there is No error, the answer is (4), i.e., No error.
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Solve the question according to given instruction
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- In that wholesale shop
- they do not sell
- fewer than ten bags of rice.
- No error
Correct Option: C
less will replace fewer because –
less (Det.) is used with uncountable Nouns to mean a smaller amount of as in-less better/time/importance
and
fewer (Det.) is used with Plural Nouns and a Plural Verb to mean not many as in –
Few people understand the difference.
There seems to be fewer tourists around this year.
Hence, less than ten bags of rice is the right usage
