Sunday, March 8, 2015

relative pronouns - Is this sentence grammatically correct? (compare the social life in x neighborhoods with those in y neighborhoods)


I am working on my personal statement for grad school, and I am wondering whether this sentence is grammatically correct:



I then conducted eight sets of observation to compare the social life and daily interactions in Hispanic neighborhoods with those in non-Hispanic neighborhoods.




I am concerned about the usage of "those" before "in non-Hispanic neighborhoods".


I think



compare X in A with X in B



is the right structure, but in the sentence I used X is relatively long. Therefore, I think I may not want to restate X after the word "with", and instead I use the pronoun "those".


I am wondering whether it is OK to use "those" here to substitute "social life and daily interactions".




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