Multiple choice

Choose the grammatically INCORRECT sentence.

  1. They gave us the money back less the service charges of three hundred rupees.

  2. This country's expenditure is not less than that of Bangladesh.

  3. This country’s expenditure on educational reforms is very less.

  4. The committee initially asked for a funding of Fifty Lakh rupees, but later settled for a lesser sum.

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Explanation

Correct Answer: The committee initially asked for a funding of Fifty Lakh rupees, but later settled for a lesser sum.

The use of the word 'lesser' is incorrect here as lesser means inferior in quality or less in inportance - insignificant. Here we have to use 'less' which means the committee settled for an amount which was less than the one initially asked for.

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