The following sentence has been divided into four parts. Identify the part which contains a grammatical error.If there is no erro…

Question

The following sentence has been divided into four parts. Identify the part which contains a grammatical error.If there is no error in the sentence, then select 'No Error'. The company will invest more / six hundred crores / in the next five years to expand / its operations in Britain.

1. A. its operations in Britain
2. B. The company will invest more (Correct answer)
3. C. in the next five years to expand
4. D. six hundred crores

Correct Answer

Option B — The company will invest more

Detailed Solution & Explanation

The correct answer is The company will invest more.

Key Points

• A comparison introduced by more needs than to complete it. The sentence reads "will invest more six hundred crores", where "more than six hundred crores" is required.
• The error therefore sits in the first part, which is where more appears without its correlative.
• The other three parts are sound: "six hundred crores" is a correct quantity, "in the next five years to expand" uses the infinitive of purpose properly, and "its operations in Britain" agrees with the singular *company*.

Additional Information

• Correlative pairs must always appear together: more … than, as … as, so … that, such … that, no sooner … than, hardly … when, not only … but also, either … or, neither … nor.
• With numbers, "more than" means exceeding a figure while "over" is its informal equivalent; dropping *than* leaves the comparison dangling.
• In error-spotting questions, scan first for missing correlatives, then subject-verb agreement, then tense consistency, then prepositions — in that order, since the first two account for most planted errors.
• Note that a collective noun such as *company* takes a singular verb and the pronoun *its* in Indian and British usage, which is why the final part is correct.