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.
It is a fact that / girls' hair is usually / long than the boys' hair.
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Correct answer: A
Explanation
The correct answer is option 1 i.e. long than the boys' hair
Error concept: Wrong use of comparative degree
What is wrong: The phrase long than is incorrect; the comparative degree of long requires longer than.
Grammatical concept: Comparative adjectives are used with than to compare two things.
Incorrectness of the concept in context: Using long than is grammatically wrong because it does not form a proper comparison.
How to correct: Replace long than with longer than.
Correct phrase/ correction: longer than the boys' hair
Final sentence: It is a fact that girls' hair is usually longer than the boys' hair.
Hence, the chosen option is correct.