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Harry felt that swimming in the nearby lake was more relaxing than billiards at the club.
Choose the option that best corrects the underlined word.

A
that of billiards
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those of billiards
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C
playing billiards
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NO CHANGE
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Solution

The correct option is B playing billiards
A comparison is being made between two activities, 'swimming' is mentioned whereas the second activity isn't mentioned but the following noun 'billiards' is mentioned. We know that billiards is a game and it would be played, so we need to change the underlined noun by adding 'playing' which is in the same grammatical structure as 'swimming' both being gerunds. Option C is hence correct and option D isn't. Options A and B do not contain the required gerund and do not complete the meaning of the sentence, hence they're incorrect.

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