We use "compared to" to compare unlike object and "compared with" to compare like objects.

Here we are comparing land area with land area so why do we have comparable to rather than comparable with?

Doesn't option B makes it a run-on sentence?

"wasps that live in a highly cooperative and organized society consisting almost entirely of females"”the queen and her sterile female workers."

Hi Stacey/Ron,

Can we say that Percentage, Amount and NumberS should have greater than; and Number and Double should have more than? Also "times" in itself doesn't determine the usage of "More than" and "greater than".

Thanks in Advance

Hi Ron/Instructors, I studied long back (unable to recall the source) that whenever we have "times" we MUST use some comparative words such as more than, fewer than, as... as. I am not questioning Official Question, which is always right. I just wanted to check whether the above rule is wr...

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Hi, I went through Thursdays with Ron video "Sentence Correction: Comparison Problems" of 9th April 2015. Can we have following constructions correct? 1) "The seat of chair A is more worn [now] than last week." (now is not mentioned) 2) "The seat of chair A is more worn [now...

Thanks Ron, I got what you are saying. :) I got too emotional with that so called rule ;). Hi Ron/Instructors, I studied long back (unable to recall the source) that whenever we have "times" we MUST use some comparative words such as more than, fewer than, as... as. three times four is twe...

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In this sentence: Bob runs faster than any man in the world. He can't run faster than himself! In this case Bob is a subset of Man so usage of "other" makes sense. However, in our case we have July and any month since October. July'87 is not a subset of any month since October'87. So isn't...

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I read somewhere (most probably in MGMAT SC Guide) that whenever we have comma - FANBOYS, both the sentences must be ICs.

Over here we have ",or perhaps even by pushing them lower", which is not IC. I am unable to understand where I am getting wrong.

Please guide.

Now I got it. Thanks Ron. In this sentence: Bob runs faster than any man in the world. He can't run faster than himself! In this case Bob is a subset of Man so usage of "other" makes sense. However, in our case we have July and any month since October. July'87 is not a subset of any month ...

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