From here:
"But at 54 percent in a Gallup Korea survey and 61.1 percent in a Realmeter survey, [President Park's] ratings are now much higher than her two predecessors at the same point in their terms."
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The problem is a faulty (or illogical) comparison. As written, the sentence is comparing ratings to predecessors, i.e., numbers to people. Can't do that.
ReplyDeleteAn easy solution presents itself: simply add an apostrophe after the "s" in "predecessors." Now you've got a logical comparison.
Another, slightly more cumbersome, correction would be to add the phrase "those of" after "than."
I figured that the crux of the biscuit was the apostrophe.
ReplyDeleteJeffery Hodges
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