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Ankit Khandelwal

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· 1 Months ago

It should like "Lesser rainfall means fewer accidents"
please explain??

Question:

DIRECTIONS: In the given questions a part of the sentence is underlined. Below are given alternatives to the underlined part at (a)(b)(c) and (d) which may improve the sentence. Choose the correct alternative. 

Fewer rainfall means less traffic accidents, according to the experts report on highway safety.

Options:
A)

Less rainfall means fewer traffic accidents

B)

Less rainfall means less traffic accidents

C)

Fewer rainfall means fewer traffic accidents

D)

No improvement

Solution:

Ans: (a) Option(A) is correct, We use little with uncountable nouns. We use few with plural countable nouns. Here, comparative words of little and few will be used.

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