{"id":72216,"date":"2019-09-17T05:36:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=72216"},"modified":"2019-09-17T05:36:53","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T05:36:53","slug":"a-common-error-in-the-use-of-comparatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/a-common-error-in-the-use-of-comparatives\/","title":{"rendered":"A Common Error In The Use Of Comparatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wrapper\">\n<section id=\"main\">In comparative sentences be careful to compare the same part of two things. <b>That of, these of<\/b> and <b>those of<\/b> are necessary words that are often omitted.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Incorrect: His teaching was like Jesus Christ.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: His teaching was like <b>that of Jesus Christ<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: The size of the shoe must be the same as this shoe.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: The size of the shoe must be the same as <b>that of this shoe<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: My painting is better than my friend.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: My painting is better than <b>that of my friend.<\/b> OR My painting is better than <b>my friend\u2019s<\/b>.<\/li>\n<li>Incorrect: Her house is bigger than her friend.<\/li>\n<li>Correct: Her house is bigger than <b>that of her friend<\/b>. OR Her house is bigger than <b>her friend\u2019s house<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In comparative sentences be careful to compare the same part of two things. That of, these of and those of are necessary words that are often omitted. Incorrect: His teaching was like Jesus Christ.&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[1403,1402,1401],"class_list":["post-72216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-common-mistakes","tag-comparative","tag-comparatives"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":72217,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72216\/revisions\/72217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}