The new apartment that we moved to has less windows than our old bungalow.
Choose the option that best corrects the underlined word.

lesser

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few

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fewer

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Solution

The correct option is C fewer
The correct answer is Option C.
The reference is to the number of windows in the given sentence.
The number of windows are countable and thus LESS will be incorrect because LESS is used in case of uncountable nouns.
The remaining options are incorrect because:
LESSER is used to indicate quality.
FEW is used in case of positive degree, in the given sentence there is a comparison being made and thus FEWER will will be the correct answer.

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