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Polarisability and Fajan's Rule

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Choose the option that best corrects the statement at the underlined point:
Jim is better at painting than he is at dancing.

A

doing dance

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B

dance

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C

dances

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D

NO CHANGE

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Solution

The correct option is A NO CHANGE
The sentence is comparing how good Jim is at painting to how good he is at dancing. The words/phrases that are being compared should have the same grammatical form. This is called parallelism. Hence, the right answer is option D.

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