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By your standard, you can just say anything that I bad grammar is not wrong because it is informal. For instance, by your standard, you...

The word ain't is informal. Double negatives like "We don't have no money" are informal. When grammarians say that a sentence is...

Yeah that is what Alan at EnglishClub.com said about than. You are correct.

The moderator Alan at EnglishClub.com knows more about English grammar than anyone on Earth. I asked Alan about this at EnglishClub.com...

You certainly implied that that is your idea on post #8 on this thread and several other posts on this thread. My thesis is that...

I am conceding that you are and were correct that what you wrote in post #68 is not a comma splice. I still disagree with your idea...

You are conceding that I am - and was - correct, are you not?

If Alan says that it's not a comma splice, then it's not a comma splice.

All right. I'll take that as a concession.

Prepositions generally take the objective pronoun. To her, for her, from her, than her ... Than can be also be used as a conjunction...

I ignore grammar, so I say and write what sounds correct from experience. English is my first language, but English grammar was taught...

Yes; I am a native English speaker. Well, before I ever researched this specific question, I would always say "I am older than her."

AI agrees with me (makes me less certain now) The sentence "I am older than she is" contains two independent clauses: "I am older" and...

I forgot that there are two independent clauses in the sentence "I am older than she is". I am totally confused. Perhaps both "I am...

Well, I am well out of my depth here, but the way I remember things from school the sentence "I am older than she is" has two...