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Better than her/she #1 (permalink) Wed Aug 17, 2005 0:36 am   Better than her/she
 

Is it more correct to say "I'm better than her" or "I'm better than she" when you don't include the verb ie "I'm better than she (is)". What is the grammatical explanation for the answer! Thanks.
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Than #2 (permalink) Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:08 am   Than
 

Hi Clare,

It's a question that has been around for a long, long time. There are two points of view: than is a preposition and should be followed by an object pronoun (than me) or it starts another sentence and is a subordinator and when we say:Charlie is better than he, we are shortening the subordinate sentence/clause from better than he is.. To most people better than he sounds unnatural and it is commonly accepted that better than me is the usual form.

Hope this helps

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