Question

The sentence has four underlined words or phrases. Choose the word or phrase that must be changed for the sentence to be correct.

The girl said that she preferred the blue saree than the pink one.

• A. girl
• B. preferred
• C. than
• D. pink one

Answer 1

The correct option is C than

The sentence given is talking about the girl preferring a blue saree. Whenever the word prefer is used, 'to' is used to indicate preference. 'Than' is used when the sentence is comparing between two things and using words like 'more' or 'less'.

Option A) girl is correct as it is the noun and subject in the sentence.

Option B) preferred is correctly used as the word and tense.

Option D) pink one is also correctly used in form.

Therefore, the correct answer is option C) than.