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"She is older than me" or " She is older than I", which is right and why?
Jul 2, 2011 11:23 PM
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Sam,
She is older than me.
She is older than I.
They are both correct. "Than" has been used as both a preposition "than me" and a conjunction "than I" for the last 500 years
Examples from Shakespeare:
-I thank God I am as honest as any man living that is an old man and no honester THAN I.
William Shakespeare - "Much Ado about Nothing", Act 3 scene 1
-A man no mightier THAN THYSELF OR ME.
In personal action, yet prodigious grown
And fearful, as these strange eruptions are.
—"Julius Caesar" 1600 by William Shakespeare.
Examples from modern authors:
-Our consul general here is a Columbus man named
Streeper, about two years younger THAN ME.
—James Thurber, letter, 1 June 1954
. . . someone else who can take it less seriously THAN I.
—Robert Frost, letter, 2 Feb. 1920
You have the same choice that Shakespeare had...you can use one or the other and still be correct.
July 3, 2011
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She is older than me. This sentences is correct.
She is older than I am. This sentence is correct as well.
However, saying only "I" is incorrect.
"I" is a pronoun, and is to be used as the subject of a verb. Which is why the second example of a correct sentence that I typed is correct, and the reason why the second sentence you typed is incorrect.
July 3, 2011
Truth is, both.
July 6, 2011
She is older than me.
"than" is a preposition and must be followed by "me" or a complete clause, "I am".
She is older than I am.
July 3, 2011
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