Question

Indigenous products are now comparable___(than/with/to/against) imported good in quality

Answer 1

Indigenous products are now comparable _to_ imported good in quality.

Answer 2

Indigenous products are now comparable to imported good in quality.

Explanation:

In the above example, ‘comparable to’ must be used instead of ‘comparable with’.

In comparisons, ‘to’ replaces ‘with’ a lot of times, for the following reasons,

• ‘To’ denotes the similarities in comparison, while ‘with’ denotes the differences between two objects.
• ‘To’ is used when the comparison doesn’t have any significance in the result; whereas ‘with’ is used when it is important to know the similarities or differences between them.