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I think that this rule applies and makes the sentence "I am older than her", with "than" a proposition, correct. Many sources list...

I now dispute that the first one is correct. The question IS about "I am older than she is" or "I am older than her." No. In the...

But your example wasn't "I am older than she is", it was "I am older than she". I don't think anyone disputes that the first one is...

I initially said that your sentence above is a comma splice. Your above sentence is not a comma splice. The moderator Alan at...

On my thread, "Why do we spend so little time learning grammar in college", I implied in the OP that "I am older than she is" is correct...

No, my point is that their example is "I am older than she is", not "...than she".

Learning to read and write with proper grammar is the most fundamental part of an education.

And Bill Clinton was a Rhodes scholar! This is exactly the sort of thing I was writing about in the OP.

The colleges should require students take high quality courses on English grammar.

One of the problems with education in the USA is that it's up to each state to decide upon what it will and won't teach. In some states...

I am not 100% sure what your point is. When you wrote "This has the verb, not just the pronoun", are you trying to imply that the...

I don't think that there is a linking verb in the sentence "I am older than she."

Depends... Is the verb used as a linking verb or not?

Seen that type of thing come up a couple times myself.

So that you live in a society where the people around you are guaranteed to have at least a basic functional understanding of the world...