Kid Rock, Pamela, and a Faulty Comparison

Kid Rock's wedding ring is flashier and has more diamonds than Pamela Anderson.

This sentence contains a faulty comparison. Kid Rock's wedding ring is compared to Pamela. A ring should be compared to another ring. One way to correct this error is to make "Pamela Anderson" possessive. The noun "wedding ring" would be implied and the comparison would be logical.

Kid Rock's wedding ring is flashier and has more diamonds than Pamela Anderson's.


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