Of the two phones, Samsung is the better.

[weebmanish]

Does removing "the" written before Samsung make this sentence grammatically incorrect?

"Of the two phones, Samsung is (the) better."

I feel like "the" shouldn't be used here but our English teacher thinks otherwise. What are your thoughts?

 

[heypresto]

Of the two phones, Samsung is better.
Of the two phones, Samsung is the better.

Of the two phones, the Samsung is the better.

Of the two, the Samsung is the better phone.

 

[dojibear]

Of the two phone brands, Samsung is the better one.

 

[elroy]

Of the two phone brands, Samsung is the better one.

You've altered the meaning.

 

[dojibear]

Yes. I turned an incorrect sentence into a correct sentence, by altering the meaning.

I also pointed out to OP that "Samsung" is a brand name, not the name of a telephone.

Is that a problem?

 

[dojibear]

Of the two phones, the Samsung is the better.

In this sentence "the Samsung" means "the Samsung phone", and that means "the phone manufactured by Samsung". Native speakers of English know that. Other people reading this thread might not know that.

 

[natkretep]

The original statement is not about brands though. The brand name was included as an identifier. It could well have been 'the blue one' or 'the longer one'. The sentence in post 3 turns it to a discussion about phone brands.

 

[elroy]

Is that a problem?

Yes. We help people by correcting their sentences while preserving the meaning, not by offering them new sentences with new meanings.

 

[dojibear]

I understand. Thanks.

 

[heypresto]

The original statement is not about brands though. The brand name was included as an identifier.

I was picturing two physical phones sitting on a table or in view of the speaker.

 

[weebmanish]

WhOf the two phones, Samsung is better.
Of the two phones, Samsung is the better.

Of the two phones, the Samsung is the better.

Of the two, the Samsung is the better phone.

What if I the sentence was: Of the two girls, Christina is hotter.

 

[heypresto]

' . . . the hotter.'

 

[natkretep]

Or, I suppose, '... the hotter one'.