When dealing with faulty comparison questions, I find it fairly simple to see the mistake in comparing, for example, a book to the author of other books. However I find it difficult (and I know this sounds stupid) to distinguish an author’s name from his book. For example, Erica Meltzer compared “Aesop’s fables” (things) with “The Brothers Grimm” (people??). I got the question wrong because I assumed “The Brothers Grimm” to be a book title. Do you have any ways that help you discriminate people from their works?
On the SAT a faulty comparison will be like the following…
Emily’s books were more interesting than Greg.
Books cannot logically be more interesting than a person ( well, maybe, but let’s keep things simple here lol)
I would assume that the best strategy is to ask yourself: what is the first thing being compared to? Is it logically sound?
It will be pretty obvious, just know that you have to compare apples to apples
For the following sentence, which choice is correct? Emily’s books were more interesting than Greg.
Emily’s books were more interesting than Greg’s.
Emily’s books were more interesting than Greg’s books.
Both are correct, @amdcous