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Please explain what is wrong with (c)

C. lesser price than you had ever imagined

"had" is not appropriate here.
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Can anyone please explain me the difference between lesser and lower, I marked ans as E for this question
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Hello Vatsal7794,

We hope this finds you well.

To answer your query, the difference here is largely idiomatic: "lower" and "higher" are simply preferred over "lesser" and "greater" for describing the noun "price".

We hope this helps.
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Can anyone please explain me the difference between lesser and lower

"Lesser" is for comparisons with respect to an abstract quality that can't realistically be represented as a numerical statistic.

E.g.,
• topics of lesser importance
• Haydn and Mozart were far more innovative and far more prolific than lesser composers
Neither the importance of a topic nor the historical status of a composer can conceivably be expressed as a number—yet perfectly viable and confident comparisons can still be made on the basis of either of them. Such comparisons use "lesser".

"Lower", on the other hand, applies to actual numbers (and, of course, to heights/altitudes—which in a comparison are LITERALLY lower or higher).

(This word choice isn't an issue going in the other direction, because the inverse of "lesser" is just "greater"—a word that's also used in numerical comparisons.)
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