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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Linguistics Studies

Grammer

Which is Correct.

I am taller than he.

I am taller than he is.

I am taller than him.
  

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Anonymous Which is Correct. I am taller than he. -No I am taller than he is.

— Dave Phillips

  • Anonymous Which is Correct.
  • I am taller than he.
  • -No I am taller than he is.
  • -Yes but I prefer your last one I am taller than him -Best.
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AnonymousWhich is Correct.

I am taller than he. -No

I am taller than he is. -Yes but I prefer your last one

I am taller than him -Best.
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AnonymousWhich is Correct.I am taller than he.I am taller than he is.I am taller than him.
All are fine, but Grammer is wrong.

CB
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I am taller than he - sounds unfinished to me CB. I feel as if there should be another verb but haven't checked a grammar book to be sure and your grammar is much better than mine will ever be so I bow down to you. I never noticed the title. Thanks for your imput CB.
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The first two are grammatically correct. The third is not, but it is probably most commonly used in the US. Go figure.

~Kate
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Hi Kate

Why isn't the third correct?
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Well, I am in my 40's and I was taught in English class back in the 1970s that "than" is a conjunction and the pronoun following it should be treated as the subject of a clause (whether the verb is written out or not) and thus the pronoun should be in the nominative case (not objective). However, I was doing some research to answer your question and I found some interesting debate:


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Dave Phillips Thanks for your imput CB.
You're welcome, Dave! The following is from the Random House Unabridged Dictionary:

"—Usage. Whether THAN is to be followed by the objective or subjective case of a pronoun is much discussed in usage guides. When, as a conjunction, THAN introduces a subordinate clause, the case of any pronouns following THAN is
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Cool BreezeEnglish changes constantly, like all living languages, and this is one of those things on which there may never be agreement.

Indeed it does.

Thank you Kate for you explaination I think that CB has written above exactly what we all thought on reading the explaination.
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Listen to Dave, he's right.
This kind of question always comes up, and the answers are always the same. The reason why this happens is that there have been and there still are a lot of ignorant teachers who have brainwashed lots of students, and now unfortunately too many people believe in prescriptivism and think it's something serious, when it's just a ridiculous set of rules based on
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