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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 can say that the sentence "She don't know" is not grammatically incorrect because it is informal.

The word ain't is informal. Double negatives like "We don't have no money" are informal. When grammarians say that a sentence is nonstandard in formal English, the grammarians basically mean that the sentence has bad grammar. With your standard, nothing would be wrong.

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. If anyone wants to see the actual thread at EnglishClub.com, the thread is at the subforum Grammar Help, and the thread is titled "I am older than she/ than...

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 universities should mandate that students take courses on English grammar in order to get a Bachelor's Degree. You responded "Isn't that what grade school is for...

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 that universities should not require undergraduates to take courses on English grammar in order to get a Bachelor's Degree.

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

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

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 older than she is" and "I am older than her" are correct. They cannot both be wrong.

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 sentence, "I am older than she is", the word "she" is not the subject of the verb. The subject of the verb is the word "I". In the sentence "I am older than she...

I initially said that your sentence above is a comma splice. Your above sentence is not a comma splice. The moderator Alan at englishclub.com knows more about English grammar than anyone on the face of the Earth, including you or me. I asked Alan at the englishclub.com about your example...

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 grammar, and I said that "I am older than her" is bad grammar. On post #74, @difalcojr asserted that "The phrase 'I am older than her' is grammatically...

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.