The price of my dress is higher than that of yours.
- (a)Error in the first underlined part
- (b)Error in the second underlined part
- (c)Error in the third underlined part
- (d)No error
Answer
D
Why
Correct — D, No error. The comparison is correctly balanced — 'the price of my dress' is compared with 'that of yours', where 'that' properly stands in for 'the price' — so the sentence is grammatically sound.
Why the others are wrong
- (a)Error in the first underlined part — 'The price of my dress' is a correct subject noun phrase.
- (b)Error in the second underlined part — 'is higher than' is a correctly formed comparative.
- (c)Error in the third underlined part — 'that of yours' correctly uses 'that' to replace 'the price', giving a parallel comparison.
Concept
A parallel-comparison item — when comparing two things, the second noun is replaced by 'that of' to keep the comparison grammatically balanced.
Related PYQs
No directly related past PYQ was found.
Practice
- practice — not a real PYQ
Choose the correct sentence.
- (a)The climate of Delhi is hotter than Shimla.
- (b)The climate of Delhi is hotter than that of Shimla.
- (c)The climate of Delhi is hotter than of Shimla.
- (d)The climate of Delhi is more hotter than Shimla.
Answer(b) ...hotter than that of Shimla — 'that of' keeps the comparison parallel.
- practice — not a real PYQ
Fill in the blank: The population of India is larger than ____ Pakistan.
- (a)that of
- (b)than
- (c)of
- (d)that
Answer(a) that of — 'that' replaces 'the population' for a balanced comparison.