The use of que + el/la/los/las?

Question

Are the following sentences correct, especially what is in bold?

-- 1. Your car is faster than Ana's car.
Tu carro es más rápido que el de Ana.

-- 2. Your blouse is redder than Ana's blouse.
Tu blusa es más roja que la de Ana.

-- 3. Your cars are faster than Ana's cars.
Tus carros son más rápidos que los de Ana.

-- 4. Your blouse is redder than Ana's blouse.
Tus blusas son más rojas que las de Ana.

What is the grammar structure in bold called? I don't think they are relative pronouns or are they?

A possessive pronoun can be used to replace any noun that is also accompanied by a possessive adjective. They are useful in shortening phrases like my house to mine. Each possessive pronoun has four forms (singular, plural, feminine, masculine) and must a - britisk, Feb 1, 2014

Hola Bandit. Could this help you ? - britisk, Feb 1, 2014

Answer 1

All your sentences are correct (but note "tus carros, tus blusas").

Tus blusas son más rojas que las (blusas) de Ana.

If you replace the missing noun blusas, it´s easy to see that las in this example is an article. Once the noun is removed, does the remaining article become a pronoun or remain an article? This is an arguement I will leave to the gramarians.

Gracias Julian, I made the changes to "tus". I think I understand now, it's about articles not pronouns or reflexive pronouns? - bandit51jd, Jan 31, 2014

Answer 2

Hi Bandit: well according to a native speaker all of your phrases are correct.

Answer 3

The train ticket costs less than the airplane ticket.
El pasaje de tren cuesta menos que el de avión.

Since the subject noun is established with "the train ticket" it doesn't have to be repeated but must be shown by the use of el/la/los/las.

el de avion versu pasaje de avion

Correct - 005faa61, Jan 31, 2014

Answer 4

1. Makes sense to me based on the title of this Spanish article: "El maíz que comen los cerdos es de más calidad que el de los bebés".
2. Makes sense to me based on a quote from this Spanish article: "Esta ley es más ambiciosa que la de López Pumarejo".
3. Seems to make sense based on a sentence found in : "La compañía logró unos ingresos conjuntos de 40 mil 419 millones de dólares, un 4.7% más que los de 2012".
4. And this one seems to make sense based on this Wikipedia article's sentence: "Biot demuestra que las ondas de segunda especie se propagan a velocidades menores que las de primera especie".

I would say "el, la, los, las" are all definitely pronouns, as you said, but what kind I do not know.

The only thing I could find on the internet was in a Spanish lesson about comparisons (look at #5):

Yes, I´m trying to understand comparisons better in Spanish. I´ll definitely look at those 4 links! Thanks so much for posting them! - bandit51jd, Jan 31, 2014