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[TP]

I saw this in the "Comparative and Superlative forms" section on page
100:

You are more interesting than she.

Is this sentence grammatically correct ? or does it need to be:
1. You are more interesting than her?
OR
2. You are more interesting than she is?

thanks.

[Guest]

I saw this in the "Comparative and Superlative forms" section on page
100:

You are more interesting than she.

Is this sentence grammatically correct ? or does it need to be:
1. You are more interesting than her?
OR
2. You are more interesting than she is?

thanks.

the comparision is between 2 clasus. so

You are more interesting than she.
You are more interesting than she is.

imo, both are same. in first one "is" is ommited cuz it is understood. it is called ellipsis.

[StaceyKoprince]

We're comparing "you" with "she" so technically we do not need a second verb (as the guest above noted). The comparison language itself is "are more interesting than":
You (are more interesting than) she.

You can say "you are more interesting than she is" but the test tends to prefer it without the verb, both because we're not required to say "is" and because more people will think it is wrong without the "is" - and that's how they'd get people to eliminate a correct answer!

That's also what allows people to fall into the trap of thinking they should use the object pronoun "her" instead of the subject pronoun "she" - because without the "is" there as a reminder, people think the pronoun must be an object, since it comes after the verb. If the intended meaning is "than she IS," then you'd use "she," not "her."

Contrast that to:
Some people like you more than (she/her).

If you say: some people like you more than she.
then the meaning is: some people like you more than she (likes you).

If you say: some people like you more than her.
then the meaning is: some people like you more than (some people like) her.

You can't do that with the sentence we had above (You are more interesting than she) because there's no repeated subject and verb that works:
You are more interesting than (you are?) her. That doesn't work. :)