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Which is grammatically correct? Or do they both work fine?
(1)Everything in this town looks similar to that in other towns.
(2)Everything in this town looks similar to those in other towns.
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(2) seems wrong. (1) seems less wrong, but still not completely right. Personally I would probably fudge it and say "Everything in this town looks similar to other towns", even though very strictly speaking it is not comparing like with like.
- (2) seems wrong.
- (1) seems less wrong, but still not completely right.
- Personally I would probably fudge it and say "Everything in this town looks similar to other towns", even though very strictly speaking it is not comparing like with like.
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(2) seems wrong. (1) seems less wrong, but still not completely right. Personally I would probably fudge it and say "Everything in this town looks similar to other towns", even though very strictly speaking it is not comparing like with like.
0You can't say that everything in this town looks similar to everything in every other town (which the sentence implies) because that's not true. You might say "Everything in this town reminds me of [name of another town]" or "Everything in this town reminds me of several other [type, e.g. midwestern] towns".
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