Question
Less of 10 per cent of (1)/ global climate finance and
(2)/ only 1.2 per cent of humanitarian (3) /funding reaches local actors in cities.(4) The following sentence has been split into four segments. Identify the segment that contains a grammatical error and select the option which rectifies that error. If no error is present then mark option 5 i.e., 'no error' as your answer.Solution
The phrase "Less of 10 per cent of" is incorrect. The correct form should be "Less than 10 per cent of." When comparing quantities, "less than" is used, not "less of." The corrected sentence would be: "Less than 10 per cent of global climate finance and only 1.2 per cent of humanitarian funding reaches local actors in cities."
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