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Anonymous Posted 14 years ago
Grammar

Please tell me Which one is correct?

We can rectify only one damaged lamp in out of three damaged lamps received / We can rectify only one damaged lamp out of three damaged lamps received.
  

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The second is grammatically correct, but to avoid the ugly repetition we'd say

'We can rectify only one of the three damaged lamps received.'

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