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Actually another (and perhaps simpler) way to look at the construct in C is that bigger than that of Australia, Mexico, or the Netherlands is just modifying gross national product.
Basically since bigger is an adjective, it will modify a noun, in this case gross national product.
Basically since bigger is an adjective, it will modify a noun, in this case gross national product.
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This is a fairly normal usage. It would actually be wrong to open this modifier with "that" or "which." Think about what we'd have to do to make that happen. First, we're not restricting the noun down, so we'd need "which," not "that." But after "which," then what? We can't say "is," because this is just a hypothetical. We'd need "would be." So the relevant portion of our sentence would read this way: "It would have the world’s eleventh largest gross national product, which would be bigger than that of Australia, Mexico, or the Netherlands." Now we'd be saying that IF Los Angeles had the eleventh largest GNP, THEN that GNP would be bigger than those others. That's much more indirect and complicated than necessary.
So what is the author really doing? The "bigger than" modifier just explains that this GNP, were we to measure it that way, would be bigger than some others. There's nothing wrong with using "bigger" directly as a noun modifier. In fact, as lnm87 demonstrated, we could even move this modifier elsewhere in the sentence and still apply it correctly to the noun in question. Some of us might like to see "an amount bigger than . . . ," but this isn't strictly necessary, as there isn't anything else for "bigger" to apply to, so there's no real chance of misinterpretation.
So what is the author really doing? The "bigger than" modifier just explains that this GNP, were we to measure it that way, would be bigger than some others. There's nothing wrong with using "bigger" directly as a noun modifier. In fact, as lnm87 demonstrated, we could even move this modifier elsewhere in the sentence and still apply it correctly to the noun in question. Some of us might like to see "an amount bigger than . . . ," but this isn't strictly necessary, as there isn't anything else for "bigger" to apply to, so there's no real chance of misinterpretation.
