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Volcano

May 25th, 2011 05:34 am

A concept which draws an analogy between..

A concept which draws an analogy between the span of a human life and that of a product.

Is "that of product", "span of product"?

A concept which draws an analogy between the span of a human life and span of a product.

susan53

May 25th, 2011 06:13 am

Re: A concept which draws an analogy between..

Yes. "that" is used to avoid repeating what has already been said. Here it replaces (and means) "span". Notice the sentence doesn't really make sense though. It's not the span of a product, but the span of the product's life. The sentence would be better as :

A concept which draws an analogy between the life-span of a human and that of a product.
Now "that" substitutes for "life-span" which is what the writer really wanted to say.

Volcano

May 25th, 2011 07:32 am

Re: A concept which draws an analogy between..

Thanks

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