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 and indicate appropriate number (1, 2, 3). If there is No error, indicate corresponding number (4) as your answer.
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Solve the question according to given instruction
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- The short story
- should not exceed
- more than two hundred words
- No error
- The short story
Correct Option: C
more than will not be used because –
exceed and more than mean the same.
Use of more than is superfluous.
Look at the examples given below :
The essay should not exceed 250 words.
The essay should not be more than 250 words.
The sentence can also be written thus –
⇒ The short story should not be more than two hundred words.
