I am comparing two countries: Norway and Greece. Obviously, Norway has a lot of moose. Which sentence is correct?
- Greece doesn't have moose while Norway does.
- Greece doesn't have moose while Norway has (them).
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Sign up to join this communityI am comparing two countries: Norway and Greece. Obviously, Norway has a lot of moose. Which sentence is correct?
The second sentence sounds repetitive because you are referring to the object Z twice in the sentence. I would use the first sentence: "X doesn't have Z while Y does", as the word "does" sufficiently mirrors the "doesn't" in the first part of the sentence and replaces the "has it". "Does" is also more flexible in this case in that more words could be used to replace z.
For example: "Jane doesn't have a cat while Bill does"
As opposed to:
"Paul doesn't have the ball while Rosy has it"
Which sounds awkward and repetitive.
edit:
The original post was changed, so to answer the new question, I would use either: "Greece doesn't have moose while Norway does" or "Greece doesn't have moose while Norway does have them". Both sound fine as long as the word "does" is included and "has" is conjugated to "have" to match "moose", which is plural.