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"He is as tall as me." vs "He is as tall as I."

"He is as tall as me." vs "He is as tall as I."
I think grammatical sentence is "He is as tall as I." I studied second "as" in this sentence is coordinator, is followed by subjet. But people use "me" more frequently than "I".
Why do people use ungrammatical sentences like this? And could you please tell me other similar examples used object instead of subject?
  

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" I think grammatical sentence is "He is ... is followed by subjet. But people use "me" more frequently than "I".

  • " I think grammatical sentence is "He is ...
  • is followed by subjet.
  • But people use "me" more frequently than "I".
  • [/nq] There are two possibilities: He is as tall as me.
  • (slightly informal) or He is as tall as I am.
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[nq:1]"He is as tall as me." vs "He is as tall as I." I think grammatical sentence is "He is ... is followed by subjet. But people use "me" more frequently than "I". Why do people use ungrammatical sentences like this?[/nq]
There are two possibilities:
He is as tall as me. (slightly informal)
or
He is as tall as I am. (preferred in formal style)

In my smart book (Michael S
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[nq:1]"He is as tall as me." vs "He is as tall as I." Why do people use ungrammatical sentences like this? And could you please tell me other similar examples used object instead of subject?[/nq]
Presumably because they think of "as" as a preposition, and "me" as its object.
Of course, there are examples when the meaning is changed, e.g. - Jack likes Jill as much as I.
- Jack likes Jil
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[nq:2]"He is as tall as me." vs "He is as ... than "I". Why do people use ungrammatical sentences like this?[/nq]
[nq:1]There are two possibilities: He is as tall as me. (slightly informal) or He is as tall as I am. ... Usage) the structure you suggest in the second sentence is called "unusual in modern English." But why, it doesn't say.[/nq]
I can't find that in the 1980 edition of Swan's
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[nq:2]"He is as tall as me." vs "He is as ... than "I". Why do people use ungrammatical sentences like this?[/nq]
[nq:1]There are two possibilities: He is as tall as me. (slightly informal) or He is as tall as I am. ... Usage) the structure you suggest in the second sentence is called "unusual in modern English." But why, it doesn't say.[/nq]
No one can give a definitive answer as to why l
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[nq:2]There are two possibilities: He is as tall as me. ... called "unusual in modern English." But why, it doesn't say.[/nq]
[nq:1]I can't find that in the 1980 edition of Swan's excellent book, which all foreign learners should have. But it ... regard 'me' in some uses as a disjunctive pronoun (like moi in French) rather than a widespread error.[/nq]
I agree, this conception of English g
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[nq:1]No one can give a definitive answer as to why language changes, but it does. In this case, the use ... the pronoun is in coordination, when the subjective form is often used instead of the objective: "between you and I".[/nq]
I believe that this sort of usage, though long attested, has had its big spurt of growth in the Postwar Era, because of hypercorrective forces. I remember being tau
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[nq:1]I believe that this sort of usage, though long attested, has had its big spurt of growth in the Postwar ... always wrong, and that "you and I" is the only correct form, regardless of where in a sentence it occurs.[/nq]
I don't think I'm the only one who has said here before that the over-corrected use of 'you and I' is related to the double problem teachers and parents have always
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[nq:2]I believe that this sort of usage, though long attested, ... correct form, regardless of where in a sentence it occurs.[/nq]
[nq:1] I don't think I'm the only one who has said here before that the over-corrected use of 'you and ... in only part of the message, is very likely to assume that 'you and I' is the only acceptable form.[/nq]
I was born in Nottingham, which was much too smal
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[nq:2]No one can give a definitive answer as to why ... often used instead of the objective: "between you and I".[/nq]
[nq:1]I believe that this sort of usage, though long attested, has had its big spurt of growth in the Postwar ... who sound like they'd be inclined to use "you and me" in the subjective position in ordinary or natural speech.[/nq]
I don't see an easy way to test the hypoth
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[nq:1]I was born in Nottingham, which was much too small to be the 4th largest city in England, but, like ... wrong, but impolite. I don't remember my teachers being insecure; more the contrary. They were the ones doing the correcting.[/nq]
[nq:2]Are you sure this has got worse since 1945?[/nq]
[nq:1]I don't know about it having got worse. Some dialects simply don't takeany notice of it an

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