On the one hand, critics accuse the police of not protecting the public from crime. On the other hand, people also complained that the police were too oppressive, (used to compare two different facts or two opposite ways of thinking about a situation] In the north, the rains are plentiful. In the south the reverseis true and drought is common.
Error Warning!
Remember to say the same as, NOT the same thator the same than. Say similar to, NOTsimilar as. Don't confuse on the other hand (see above) with in contrast. In contrastexpresses a marked opposition between two ideas: Chan sharply condemned the diplomatic moves; in contrast, his deputy, Tiong, saw them as an attempt to create political stability.
Exercises
1 Complete these sentences about comparing and contrasting. The study looked at the different life chances of working-class children …………….. to those of middle-class children. The results showed a marked ……………………….. (three possible answers) between the two groups of plants being tested. The title of her paper was: 'Retail price differences in large supermarkets: organic foods ……………….. to non-organic foods'. My project was a …………………. of different styles of industrial architecture in the late 20th century. The result of the second experiment was very different ………………….. that of the first. It would be interesting to do a ……………………. between the musical skills of teenage girls and those of teenage boys. The physicist drew an ………………… between the big bang and throwing a stone into a pond. Gronsky believes cold fusion will soon be achieved in the laboratory. ……………………… his colleague Ladrass believes cold fusion is simply theoretically impossible.
