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Our Cat is Cuter than those in the shelter

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vibhusethi
 Post subject: Our Cat is Cuter than those in the shelter
 Post Posted: Sun Dec 06, 2009 1:22 pm 
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Hello all.
This is from the MGMAT SC book. There are no answer choices, you are expected to correct the error in the sentence.
The incorrect sentence is
"Our Cat is Cuter than those in the shelter".
The correct sentence given is
"Our cat is cuter than the cats in the shelter".
My question is this:
Is it OK to say
"Our cat is cuter than the one's in the shelter" ?
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vaibhav.tripathi
 Post subject: Re: Our Cat is Cuter than those in the shelter
 Post Posted: Tue Dec 15, 2009 4:09 pm 
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it is not.
"... one's in the shelter" translates to "... the cat(s) belonging to the person in the shelter".
That apostrophe alters the meaning altogether.
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RonPurewal
 Post subject: Re: Our Cat is Cuter than those in the shelter
 Post Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 8:34 am 
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vibhusethi wrote:
Hello all.
This is from the MGMAT SC book. There are no answer choices, you are expected to correct the error in the sentence.
The incorrect sentence is
"Our Cat is Cuter than those in the shelter".
The correct sentence given is
"Our cat is cuter than the cats in the shelter".
My question is this:
Is it OK to say
"Our cat is cuter than the one's in the shelter" ?


yeah, as the poster above said, you'd have to kill the apostrophe. however, punctuation within words is not tested on the gmat, so you don't have to worry too hard about that one.

there aren't a ton of examples for "one/ones", but i do believe that your version (without the apostrophe) would probably be acceptable.
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vibhusethi
 Post subject: Re: Our Cat is Cuter than those in the shelter
 Post Posted: Tue Jan 19, 2010 6:05 pm 
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Thank you.
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Ben Ku
 Post subject: Re: Our Cat is Cuter than those in the shelter
 Post Posted: Thu Jan 28, 2010 4:32 am 
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Glad it helped.

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