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My new recipe for chocolate cake has less sugar than the old one.
Choose the option that best corrects the underlined word.

A
NO CHANGE
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lesser
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few
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fewer
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Solution

The correct option is B NO CHANGE
The correct answer is Option A.
The sentence needs no change because LESS is the correct word.
LESS refers to quantity and LESSER refers to quality. The reference is to the quantity of sugar in the given sentence.
Thus Option A is the correct answer.
FEW/FEWER is used only when we refer to countable nouns and sugar is not a countable noun.


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