alleryStart learning →Complete the sentence: There were ___ visitors at the fair this year than last year.
- less
- little
- fewer
- lesser
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Correct answer: C. fewer
Visitors are countable and plural, so the strict rule calls for fewer rather than less.
SSC CGL Improvement of Sentences — practice questions
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Complete the sentence: There were ___ visitors at the fair this year than last year.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct word: The soup needs ___ salt than the curry does.Read the answer and worked solution →Select the best word: He lost the election by ___ than five votes.Read the answer and worked solution →A strict grammarian would correct a shop sign reading 'Ten items or less' to:Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct word: The recipe asks for ___ than a litre of milk.Read the answer and worked solution →A modifier that may be wrongly attached to a word other than the one intended is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the best subject: Walking down the lane, ___ admired the old trees.Read the answer and worked solution →Strunk and White say a participle phrase that opens a sentence must refer to the sentence's:Read the answer and worked solution →A phrase modifying no noun, as in 'The weather being beautiful, we plan to go out', is a(n):Read the answer and worked solution →Complete in parallel form: She likes cooking, jogging, and ___.Read the answer and worked solution →Balance among similar phrases that share one grammatical structure is known as:Read the answer and worked solution →Repeating 'I have a dream that one day' at the start of successive clauses is called:Read the answer and worked solution →Using parallel structure in a sentence mainly improves its:Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: He is ___ university student from Kerala.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: We waited for ___ hour outside the gate.Read the answer and worked solution →Choose the correct word: She gave me ___ useful advice.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: We do not have ___ information.Read the answer and worked solution →Pick the correct phrase: It was ___ long letter, full of news.Read the answer and worked solution →Pick the correct phrase: It was ___ loss for the whole village.Read the answer and worked solution →Pick the correct phrase: She is ___ clever girl.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: What ___ beautiful day!Read the answer and worked solution →Select the correct opening: ___ is famous for its fashion houses.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: ___ the girls won medals at the meet.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: Between you and ___, the plan is risky.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: The prize was shared between Ravi and ___.Read the answer and worked solution →Fill in the blank: Meena and ___ went to the market.Read the answer and worked solution →A mistake made by overcorrecting what one wrongly thinks is an error is called:Read the answer and worked solution →In American English, complete: The jury ___ reached its verdict.Read the answer and worked solution →In British usage, complete: Arsenal ___ won the match.Read the answer and worked solution →A word naming a collection of things taken as a whole is called a:Read the answer and worked solution →
Worked practice questions
Choose the correct word: The soup needs ___ salt than the curry does.
- few
- many
- less
- fewer
Show answer and solution
Correct answer: C. less
Salt is an uncountable mass, which takes less in the traditional rule.
Select the best word: He lost the election by ___ than five votes.
- lesser
- less
- fewer
- little
Show answer and solution
Correct answer: C. fewer
Votes are counted one by one, so the phrase takes fewer than five.
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