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Which is grammatical:

Charity work gives tremendous job satisfaction, which wouldn't be compared to other kinds of jobs

or:

Charity work gives tremendous job satisfaction, which wouldn't be compared to other kind of jobs

I already know that when you use “other" then it is followed by plural noun: other*people(plural, compoun noun), other books… etc.

Does “other" takes only a single noun exactly right after it is used in sentence? Or it can take suceeding plural nouns in a sentence?

Best Answer

You shouldn’t think of “kind” as a separate noun here – think of it as part of a noun phrase.

Your sentence can be thought of as:

...which wouldn't be compared to other X

where X functions as a plural noun. So, you could write it as:

...which wouldn't be compared to other jobs

but using a plural noun phrase works fine, too:

...which wouldn't be compared to other types of work

(In that example, we use the singular work, because work in that context is a mass noun.)

Getting back to your examples, you needs to the plural “kinds”:

...which wouldn't be compared to other kinds of jobs.

You can actually omit the “of jobs”, and see which sentence sounds grammatical:

...which wouldn't be compared to other kinds → (okay)
...which wouldn't be compared to other kind → (wrong)

One more interesting fact: you can use a singular noun phrase if you change other to another:

...which wouldn't be compared to another kind of job

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