vikram4689 wrote:Like Bridget's addiction, the tallest girl on the basketball team's addiction is to chewing gum.
is this a correct sentence, i don't think so but knewton says it is correct
Looks good to me.
It may seem a little clunky, but we don't have many options if we want to compare one person's addiction with another person's addiction, when one of our people is the tallest girl on the basketball team.
Notice that the sentence "
Like Bridget's addiction, Carol's addiction is to chewing gum" logically compares two addictions (Bridget's addiction and Carol's addiction)
The sentence "
Like Bridget's addiction, Carol Marie Smith's addiction is to chewing gum" is also fine since we are comparing two addictions.
If we continue with this logic all the way to the sentence in question, we see that the tallest girl on the basketball team has an addiction and we are comparing that addiction to Bridget's addiction. Fine.
Another option is to write,"
Like Bridget's addiction, the basketball team's tallest girl's addiction is to chewing gum," but this one is super clunky
Cheers,
Brent
