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Old Mon Mar 03, 2014, 07:06am
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... smarter than me, could be smarter than I. The phrases infers "he is smarter than I am," and we would not say "he is smarter than me am." The simplest test of such phrases is to separate the two and test whether one would say them, separately and completely, with the desired verb, as one tends to say them in plural or intimating the verb by the structure.
Is that you Mr. Baumgartner, my high school sophomore English teacher? I didn't know that you were a basketball official. In fact, I didn't know that you were still alive. What's it feel like to be 110 years old?
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