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Viceidol Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

I am taller than he, am I not?

Hello, everyone

I need to know if the following sentence is correct?

I am taller than he, am I not?

What I really need to know is if the tag question "am I not?" is correct. I know it's OK to use "aren't I?", but I'm not sure the usage of "am I not?" Please enlight me and thanks for your help.
  

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I'm not sure about "am I not", but as far as I remember, "amn't I" is mostly used in Scotland and Northern Ireland, while "aren't I" is usual in England, America, and Australia.

— Ruslana

  • I'm not sure about "am I not", but as far as I remember, "amn't I" is mostly used in Scotland and Northern Ireland, while "aren't I" is usual in England, America, and Australia.
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I'm not sure about "am I not", but as far as I remember, "amn't I" is mostly used in Scotland and Northern Ireland, while "aren't I" is usual in England, America, and Australia.
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Shouldn't it be "I'm taller than him"?
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Both are okay.

Somewhere CalifJim wrote:
CalifJim...both are correct and that most grammarians will insist that "Jessica is prettier than I" is better, even though many important authors have used "... than me", which is also what people very often say in everyday conversations, and which is contrary to what the grammarians recommend.
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Hi,

I am taller than him, aren't I?
I am taller than he is, aren't I?

Those are ok, and any other version would sound weird to me.... "than he" might be correct according to some grammarians, but I would say it's almost not used at all in modern English, so that would sound odd. I heard that "am I not?" is used somewhere (maybe some parts of the UK?), but I guess in most var
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'am I not' is grammatically ok but it can sound quite odd. It's not the normal everyday way of saying this. I would suspect that the person saying this was being sarcastic or pompous.
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New2grammarShouldn't it be "I'm taller than him"?
I'm taller than he is.

I'm taller than he.

In modern English "I'm taller than him" is correct.
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I agree with Nona, but I think the tag "am I not?" might also be used just for extra emphasis on occasion (i.e. without necessarily sounding pompous or sarcastic).
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