2016 · Q19
We are doing this in the interest of the poors.
EnglishSentence Improvement
- Ain the interests of the poors
- Bin the interests of the poor
- Cfor the interests of the poor
- DNo improvement
Explanation
When an adjective is used as a plural noun ('the poor' = poor people), it takes no plural -s, so 'poors' is wrong. The idiom is 'in the interest(s) of the poor'. Option A keeps 'poors', option C wrongly uses 'for the interests of', and (D) leaves the error. Hence (B).