GMAT Sentence Correction (SC) | Re: In 1852 Robert Angus Smith published a detailed

Dearanujkhatiwada ,
The way the idiom is constructed, in each branch, the comparative word must immediately follow the word"the " ----"the closer ", "the more quot;, etc. The word "city" is not a comparative word.

The more I think about this, the more I think this is not a question up to GMAT standards. Above
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