After 5 hours, the team lead concluded that Mathew, the software engineer had the ability to write better code than anyone else.

A logical comparison completes a sentence without omitting keywords between the comparing nouns.

In the given sentence, Mathew is compared to all the other people.

After 5 hours, the team lead concluded that Mathew, the software engineer, had the ability to write better code than anyone else.

The comparison is clear and logically structured. Mathew’s ability to write better code is compared to the abilities of "anyone else," maintaining parallelism. The verb tenses are consistent. The past tense "concluded" aligns with the past time frame indicated by "After 5 hours."

No change

After 5 hours, the team lead concluded that Mathew, the software engineer, had the ability to write better code than anyone else’s skill.

The sentence is somewhat unclear and could be improved for better precision.

anyone else’s skill

After 5 hours, the team lead concluded that Mathew, the software engineer, had the ability to write better code than anyone he had ever seen.

Stating that Mathew is the best the team lead has ever seen might be based on a limited pool of individuals the team lead has worked with. This could be an exaggeration and may not accurately reflect Mathew’s skills in a broader context.

anyone he had ever seen

After 5 hours, the team lead concluded that Mathew, the software engineer, had the ability to write better code than anyone else’s code.

The sentence has a grammatical issue. The problem lies in the lack of parallelism in the comparison. The sentence is comparing Mathew’s ability to write code to "anyone else’s code," which is not grammatically parallel.

anyone else’s code

Correct sentence

After 5 hours, the team lead concluded that Mathew, the software engineer had the ability to write better code than anyone else’s code.

Option

A

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