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Banking Sample Paper SBI Clerk Grade (Main) Sample Test Paper-3

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    Direction: Read each sentence to find out whether there is any grammatical error or idiomatic error in it. The error, if any, will be in one part of the sentence. The number of that part is the answer. If there is no error, the answer is 'e'. (Ignore the errors of punctuation, if any).

    A) The number of students

    B) present in the school today

    C) are less because of

    D)  the rumour of an approaching storm.

    E)  No error

    Correct Answer: C

    Solution :

     When 'the' or Possessive Adjective (your, our or their) comes before 'number', the Verb is al-ways  Singular because in that case 'number' does not express an Indefinite number.
    Look at the sentence:
    The number of potential poets born varies from age to age. Hence, 'is less because of should be used.


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