Recent content by sevensages

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.

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 example in your link from Merriam-Webster in which the word "than" is used as a preposition must be superior to the example in which the word "than" is used as a...

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

I admit that if the word "than" is used as a preposition, your link does have as an example sentence "You are older than me". But if the word than is used as a conjunction, your link has the example phrase "older than I am". I am confused about this now. Apparently I needed to take a high...

My link says when to use the nominative case and when to use the accusative case. My link says to use the accusative case when a pronoun receives the action of a verb. In the sentence "I am older than her", "her" is not receiving the action of a verb.

I admit that you might be right about this. The link I posted in post #76 says why "I am older than her" is grammatically incorrect.

In "I am older than she", the word "is" after the word she is implied. Both "I am older than she" and "I am older than she is" are grammatically correct. "I am older than her" is grammatically incorrect.

k. I still think that "I am older than she" is correct grammar. But I now think my reasoning is wrong in post #81. She is performing the action of being older than I.

The word "ain't" is grammatically correct in informal English. The sentence "She don't know" is grammatically correct in informal English. The rules of formal English are what matter for this discussion.

"She" is not performing any action in the sentence "I am older than she." You are looking at a usage of the nominative case that does not apply in the sentence "I am older than she." You are looking at a usage of the nominative case for a noun or pronoun that is the subject in a sentence...

https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/pronouns/nominative-case/ What does everyone else think about the above quote by difalcojr? What does the quote by difalcojr indicate about the accuracy of what I wrote in the OP?

Yes

It is a college's job to fix that because it is a college's job to give someone a well-rounded education.