CAT 1999 | Question: 22

Question

In the following sentence, a part of the sentence is underlined. Beneath the sentence, four different ways of phrasing the underlined part are indicated. Choose the best alternative among the four.

Many of these environmentalists proclaim to save nothing less than the planet itself.

• A. to save nothing lesser than
• B. that they are saving nothing lesser than
• C. to save nothing less than
• D. that they save nothing less than

Answer 1

Ans A)

"lesser" is proper matching here with the sentence, as here we are comparing with enviornmentalists proclaim and planet proclaim

Comments

The question is about grammatic correctness. A is not correct.

http://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/nothing-less-than-something

B and D are also wrong as "proclaim that" is wrong usage.