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Taka Posted 8 years ago
Grammar

Other than

Which is grammatically correct? Or are they both fine?


Someone other than he was capable of producing that particular effect.

Someone other than him was capable of producing that particular effect.

  

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Hi I believe that the first is grammatically correct but the second is what almost everyone would say It's one of those cases where, I'd say, you should follow common speech, so I would go with the second Dave

  • Hi I believe that the first is grammatically correct but the second is what almost everyone would say It's one of those cases where, I'd say, you should follow common speech, so I would go with the second Dave
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Hi

I believe that the first is grammatically correct but the second is what almost everyone would say

It's one of those cases where, I'd say, you should follow common speech, so I would go with the second

Dave

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TakaWhich is grammatically correct? Or are they both fine?

I'd say that just the second is correct because you can't consider 'than' as a conjunction in the first one, but a preposition. "he" is a subject pronoun and needs a verb, which is nonexistent in the given sentence.

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