Choose the grammatically INCORRECT sentence:
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GATE CSE 2012 · Q59
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Official answer: D) This country's expenditure on educational reforms is very less.
Verbal AptitudeIn standard English, "less" is a comparative adjective and cannot be modified directly by "very" to describe a predicate adjective (e.g., saying "is very less" is unidiomatic and grammatically incorrect). The appropriate expression would be "is very low" or "is very small".
Sentences (A), (B), and (C) use standard grammatical constructions.
Therefore, the incorrect sentence is (D).
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The misconception this question tests
Check the usage of 'less' modified by the intensifier 'very' as a predicate adjective.
This Verbal Aptitude previous year question is Q59 of the GATE CSE 2012 paper. Find more GATE CSE PYQs on Verbal Aptitude in General Aptitude, or browse all GATE CSE PYQs.
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