The following sentence has been divided into parts. One of them may contain an error. Select the part that contains the error from the given options. If you don’t find any error, mark ‘No error’ as your answer.
In the delicacy and elaborateness / of its ornament, it is the / more splendid church in Italy.
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Correct answer: D
Explanation
The correct answer is option 4 i.e. more splendid church in Italy.
- The sentence compares one church with all other churches in Italy, so a superlative degree is required, not a comparative one.
- When something is compared with all others in a group, we use the superlative degree (most), not the comparative degree (more).
- “More splendid” is used for comparison between two things, whereas here the comparison is with all churches in Italy.
- Replace “more splendid” with “most splendid”.
Thus, the correct sentence is:
In the delicacy and elaborateness of its ornament, it is the most splendid church in Italy.