<p>Recently my relatives sent me a message claiming that the scenery they were witnessing was as beautiful as scenery in the us and europe. That got me thinking.
How do you correctly compare a singular with a plural?
As in this case it seems natural to say : The scenery here is as beautiful as those in the us and europe.
However, to say : The scenery here is as beautiful as that in the us and europe, seems awkward as scenergy in the us and europe can’t be of singular identity.
So, college confidential, what would you do without using two “scenery”?</p>
<p>A pronoun like “that” or “those” needs a referent, and it needs to match the referent in number. Scenery is singular, so the correct choice is “that.”</p>
<p>^well said above. ‘That’ is the only pronoun that properly takes place of ‘scenery’ in the sentence. Nonetheless, you can’t forget that ‘those’ in the first sentence is incorrectly used as it is describing a plural noun</p>