<p>Why this is correct? </p>
<p>According to the 1974 census records, the population of Tokyo was larger than that of any other city in the world except New York. </p>
<p>I'd like to say that</p>
<p>According to the 1974 census records, the population of Tokyo was larger than that of any other city in the world except New York's. (but this is wrong)</p>
<p>Thanks!</p>
<p>Why this is correct? - Terrible grammar right away…</p>
<p>than that, combined with New York’s = redundancy.</p>
<p>Because it’s correct. Any ideas?</p>
<p>I just told you than that combined with New York’s is redundancy, that’s why you are wrong. I said that you put “Why this is correct?” In your post, and it sounded stupid, because it, being that sentence is terrible grammar. I just told you why you were wrong, holy crap.</p>
<p>I understood nothing from what you wrote here. You don’t give reasons why this is correct “According to the 1974 census records, the population of Tokyo was larger than that of any other city in the world except New York.”</p>
<p>Hi. It’s wrong cuz of that “that of” which is already possesive so the use of the apostrophe is redundant and unnecessary</p>
<p>Ok…but I still don’t understand this… comparing “population” to the “city” is wrong.</p>
<p>It is a valid comparison. It is not comparing the population and the city. The that of portion refers to the population of the city. </p>
<p>The reason an apostrophe would be incorrect has already been explained.</p>
<p>Ok. 10char</p>