SSC CGL 2025 Tier-II · Paper-I, 19 January 2026 · English Language and Comprehension · Question 18 of 150

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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(A) six hundred crores(B) in the next five years to expand(C) its operations in Britain (D).

(a)B
(b)C
(c)D
(d)A

Answer

Why

Correct — D. Option (d) names part A, 'invest more'. The trigger is more placed straight before a figure: comparing a quantity with a figure needs than.

'The company will invest more than six hundred crores' is the sentence the grammar asks for. Part A stops at more, so the error sits there → option (d).

Why the others are wrong

(a)
B — Six hundred crores names the amount correctly: crore takes either plural after a number, crore or crores, so the s is not a fault. What is missing is the than before it.
(b)
C — To expand is an infinitive of purpose: the company invests in order to expand. It is correctly formed and correctly placed.
(c)
D — Its agrees with 'the company', a singular noun, and 'its operations in Britain' is sound. Part D carries no error.

Concept

More is the comparative of much and many. When it compares a quantity with a figure, than introduces the figure: more than six hundred crores, more than a decade, more than 21 years.

'More than' works as one unit meaning 'over': 'more than 50 people' means over 50. Drop than and more is left with nothing to compare against.

A crore is ten million, a hundred lakh.

The instruction offers 'No Error', but the four options are parts A to D of the sentence itself, so no-error cannot be chosen here: one of the four parts must hold the error.

Key facts

More compares a quantity with a figure through than: more than six hundred crores.
A crore is ten million, or a hundred lakh.
An infinitive of purpose answers 'why?': the company invests to expand.

Study next

Comparatives with than: more than, less than, fewer thanIndian number words after a numeral: lakh, croreInfinitives of purpose: to expand, in order to expand

Common traps

Suspecting crores because of its s, and missing that more has no than
Reading 'invest more' as complete because 'invest more money' is fine — here more stands before a figure, which needs than

'For more than a decade' stands as a correct part at 11 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.12, where the keyed error is 'who work'.

The mirror fault, a than with no comparative before it, is keyed at 24 Sep 2024, 09:00, English Q.9: 'Camels tend to move slowly than other domestic animals'.

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