what is the grammatical error in these statement ??
(A) Despite an effort to boost competitiveness. (B) fewer than half of the high school students (C) would have been ready for college by next
year.
Answers
Answer:
B is the answer of the questions
Answer:
(B) fewer than half of the high school students
(C) would have been ready for college by next year are the statements with the grammatical error.
Explanation:
The first sentence is correct as ‘despite’ is always used before a noun and effort is the noun in the sentence.
The word ‘fewer’ is wrong in the second sentence. It should be ‘lesser’ as fewer signifies a specificity of number. Here no number is specifically mentioned.
The last sentence is completely wrong. The tense used is future perfect. Future perfect tense is used only when there is a definite assurance of something happening. In this case there is no such probability. The correct statement thus should be: will not be ready for college by next year.