This is how I went about it . We normally use the sentence " I did it better than you " and the other way to it is " You did it better than me " . Similarly in the sentence " I bettered you " or " You bettered me " we use You and me
But while using the sentece " You have a better house than I have " we can drop off the "have" but cant we substitute " I have " for "me" ??
"Houston ...help required :confused:"
Don't confuse us!! Here's what I got from a very reliable source for english grammar rules :
"Choosing Cases after Linking Verbs and after
But, Than, and
As
In formal or academic text, we need the nominative or subject form of the pronoun after a linking verb: "It was
he who represented the United Nations during the 1960s," "That must be
she on the dock over there." In casual speech and writing, however, that sounds awfully stuffy. Imagine the detective who's been looking for the victim's body for days. He jimmies open the trunk of an abandoned car and exclaims, "It's she!" No self-respecting detective since Sherlock Holmes would say such a thing.
When the personal pronoun follows
except, but, than, or
as, you've got an argument on your hands. Traditionally, these words have been regarded as
conjunctions and the personal pronoun that follows has been regarded as the subject of a clause (which might not be completed). Thus "No one could be as happy as
I." (If you provide the entire mechanism of the clause "as I " you see the justification for the subject form.) The same goes for these other conjunctions: "Whom were you expecting? who else
but he?" "My father is still taller
than she" .
Many grammarians have argued, however, that these words are often used as
prepositions, not conjunctions (and have been used that way for centuries by many good writers). In a structure such as "My mother is a lot like
her," we have no trouble recognizing that "like" is acting as a preposition and we need the object form of the pronoun after it. Why, then, can't we use "than" and "but" as prepositions in sentences such as "Dad's a lot taller than
him" and "No one in this class has done the homework but
me"?
Such usage is now widely regarded as acceptable in all but the most formal writing. The same argument is sometimes used for the object form after
as "The coach is not as smart as me" but this argument does not enjoy the cogency of using the object form after
but and
than. Garner* argues that when the pronoun precedes the
but phrase, the objective case should be used ("None of the students were interested but
him"); when the
but phrase precedes the verb, the subject case is appropriate ("None of the students but
he were interested"). The argument goes that in the former case
but is behaving as a preposition, in the second as a conjunction."
Hope that helps!!