NDA (I & II) 2020 General Ability Test · Question 48 of 148

Correct — C, Error in the third underlined part. 'Prefer' is followed by 'to', not 'than', when comparing two things, so it should read 'I prefer seafood to Mediterranean food.'

• (a)Error in the first underlined part — 'I prefer' is grammatically correct.
• (b)Error in the second underlined part — 'seafood' is a correct object.
• (d)No error — The sentence does contain an error — 'than' should be 'to' after 'prefer'.

A verb-preposition item — 'prefer' takes 'to' (not 'than') when comparing two options.

No directly related past PYQ was found.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Choose the correct sentence.

  • (a)I prefer tea than coffee.
  • (b)I prefer tea to coffee.
  • (c)I prefer tea from coffee.
  • (d)I prefer tea over than coffee.

  Answer(b) I prefer tea to coffee — 'prefer' takes 'to'.

• practice — not a real PYQ

  Fill in the blank: She prefers reading ____ watching television.

  • (a)than
  • (b)to
  • (c)from
  • (d)over than

  Answer(b) to — the pattern is 'prefer X to Y'.