A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the meaning of the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the option corresponding to 'No improvement'. Eventually as we grow up, we start believing in ourselves a little less everyday.
A sentence/a part of the sentence is underlined. Four alternatives are given to the underlined part which will improve the meaning of the sentence. Choose the correct alternative and click the button corresponding to it. In case no improvement is needed, click the option corresponding to 'No improvement'. Eventually as we grow up, we start believing in ourselves a little less everyday. Correct Answer Little less every day
The correct answer is option 2.
The sentence is wrong because the adjective ‘everyday’ is used incorrectly.
The first option is incorrect because it uses ‘lesser’ instead of ‘less’ in a sentence where there is no need for a comparative form of an adjective. When there is no comparison in the sentence with anything, the positive form of the adjective should be used. ‘I have lesser problems now than I did before’, in this sentence there is a comparison between the present number of problems and the past number of problems, therefore, lesser is used, had there been no comparison ‘less’ would have sufficed, eg, ‘I have less problems now.’
Option 3 isn’t correct either because both the adjectives ‘lesser’ and ‘everyday’ do not agree with the sentence. As discussed in Option A, ‘lesser’ should be replaced by ‘less’ because there is no comparison in the sentence. The adjective ‘everyday’ means something ordinary or something that occurs more or less on daily basis, eg, ‘I don’t know when my time flies doing these everyday chores.’
Option 2 is the correct answer because not only does it have the correct form of the adjective ‘less’ but also the way in which ‘everyday’ should be used in the sentence for it to make sense. ‘Everyday’ means usual, regular and daily while the phrase ‘every day’ means something that happens each day or every single day, eg., ‘Growing children should have milk every day.’
Correct sentence:
‘Eventually as we grow up, we start believing in ourselves a little less every day.’
