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Navitasan Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Better than you and me

1) How is he better than you and me?
2) How is he better than you or me?
3) How is he better than either you or me?

Does (1) mean: In what way is he better than both of us?
Does (2) and (3) mean: Pick either me or yourself, and then compare the person you have picked with him and tell me in what way he is better than that person?

Gratefully,
Navi.
  

Top answer

navitasan Does (1) mean: In what way is he better than both of us? It might, but we need more context to be sure. Note, however, that how may also suggest your scepticism about his being better than you and your friend (or at the very least, you're surprised (to hear) that he's better than you and your friend).

— Ivanhr

  • navitasan Does (1) mean: In what way is he better than both of us?
  • It might, but we need more context to be sure.
  • Note, however, that how may also suggest your scepticism about his being better than you and your friend (or at the very least, you're surprised (to hear) that he's better than you and your friend).
  • The same reasoning, in my opinion, applies to #2 and #3.
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navitasanDoes (1) mean: In what way is he better than both of us?
It might, but we need more context to be sure. Note, however, that how may also suggest your scepticism about his being better than you and your friend (or at the very least, you're surprised (to hear) that he's better than you and your friend).

The same reasoning, in my opini
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Thank you very much, Ivan,
I agree. It might be a rhetorical question, but it need not be. In any case, I was looking for their literal meaning.

Gratefully,
Navi.
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