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I agree, D it is. But can someone please explain this to me:

Is ' in comparisn to' always a wrong idiom or is it wrong only for a specific situation? (For eg. b/w two entities)
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I agree, D it is. But can someone please explain this to me:

Is ' in comparisn to' always a wrong idiom or is it wrong only for a specific situation? (For eg. b/w two entities)


Here we use in comparison with because we need a contrast....

Besides that, in this sentence we do not compare two distinct things but rather a number of things (workers)

in comparison to can be used whe we want to compare two different things. Compare Apples to Oranges....

Don't know if this is clearer...
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D.

Compare TO (Similar thing)
Compare WITH (non similar thing)
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Difference between "compare to" and "compare with" please..
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Compared with is usually preferd in GMAT

Compared to: usually compares unlike terms. Emphasize on the similarities.
Compared with: usually like terms. Emphasize on the disimilarities.



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