jaituteja wrote:
Hi pqhai,
Let see the first part: Unlike the premiums for auto insurance" <== It's not a complete sentence, so the usage of pronoun "those for" is not correct.
During comparison, Like/Unlike is always followed by a noun. If we make it a complete sentence, then for clause we use "As" instead of "like/unlike" because we are comparing actions in that case.
If i say:
Like that of John, Mary's car is white.
As John has a white car, Mary has a white car.
Like John's car, that of Mary is white.
Here, "Unlike the John's Car" is not a clause, but still usage of "that" is correct.
Thanks,
Jai
KUDOS if it HELPED..!!!
Thanks Jai
Sorry for confusing. I say "It's not a complete sentence", I want to convey the idea the phrase "unlike....." does not provide enough description to hold a pronoun "those" valid (or the pronoun is not be
modified enough). I will change my post a bit to avoid confusing.
Regarding your example, I, in turn, politely disagree with you.
You use pronoun "those" or "that to indicate "new copy" ==> A "new copy" must be
modified. In other word, you have to
add a description to indicate how the new copy is different from the previous version.
I think your example should be:
Marry's car, unlike that of John's, is white <== "that" is pronoun which is a "new copy" of Marry's car. "that of John's" is
modified by "Marry's car is white". Thus, the sentence is correct.
However, in your example, the clause "that of...." is a main clause and is
not be modified by anything.
Any discussion is welcome.
Cheer
PS: I highly recommend MGMAT - Sentence correction - Chapter Pronoun which describes very well how to use pronoun properly. (Just my recommendation).