I say:
I can eat more than you can eat.
I can eat more than you can.
I can eat more than you can do.
I can eat more than you.
I can run faster than you can run.
I can run faster than you can.
I can run faster than you can do.
I can run faster than you.
Are all of them acceptable? If not, could you tell me the reasons?
User Piscean says:
The third in each group is not correct. We don't replace a verb with DO when it follows a modal.
But I see this:
do
auxiliary verb
used instead of repeating a verb that has already been used
I agree with Piscean.
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kadioguy'Will Kay come?' 'She may do.'
This is typically British. I think I've heard it a hundred times in British broadcasts here in the US.
It sounds wrong to Americans.
CJ