hardyweineberg
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"The population of the US is bigger than that of Britian, France and Germany put together."
Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/together
I saw this sentence in the Cambridge Dictionary, but I think in the sentence, 'that' is not the correct word to use; it's 'those' since population is a countable noun. To my knowledge, this is the grammatically correct form: "The population of the US is bigger than those of Britian, France and Germany put together."
Is the dictionary's example wrong or correct?
Source: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/together
I saw this sentence in the Cambridge Dictionary, but I think in the sentence, 'that' is not the correct word to use; it's 'those' since population is a countable noun. To my knowledge, this is the grammatically correct form: "The population of the US is bigger than those of Britian, France and Germany put together."
Is the dictionary's example wrong or correct?