Hello!
Help needed: A friend and I are in the middle of what has become a rather large dispute, and I'd appreciate feedback as to which you think is grammatically correct.
I think that the following is correct:
"She is smarter than I."
But my friend maintains that it is:
"She is smarter than me."
i'll admit that the latter sounds better when you are speaking, but I've always felt that the former is more appropriate when writing formally, since I "hear" it in my mind as an unfinished statement, which ought to be:
"She is smarter than I [am]."
The other version would then be: "She is smarter than me [is]."
Our argument has expanded to include pairs, i.e. is it:
"She is smarter than he and I."
OR
"She is smarter than him and me."
Again, I think it ought to be the first sentence, but to be fair I'm not a native English-speaker and could be wrong. (In fact, I often am wrong.)
Any thoughts? They'd be much appreciated.
Cheers and the best
M
Help needed: A friend and I are in the middle of what has become a rather large dispute, and I'd appreciate feedback as to which you think is grammatically correct.
I think that the following is correct:
"She is smarter than I."
But my friend maintains that it is:
"She is smarter than me."
i'll admit that the latter sounds better when you are speaking, but I've always felt that the former is more appropriate when writing formally, since I "hear" it in my mind as an unfinished statement, which ought to be:
"She is smarter than I [am]."
The other version would then be: "She is smarter than me [is]."
Our argument has expanded to include pairs, i.e. is it:
"She is smarter than he and I."
OR
"She is smarter than him and me."
Again, I think it ought to be the first sentence, but to be fair I'm not a native English-speaker and could be wrong. (In fact, I often am wrong.)
Any thoughts? They'd be much appreciated.
Cheers and the best
M