{"id":476,"date":"2023-04-05T12:34:07","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T16:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/?p=476"},"modified":"2023-06-15T11:44:24","modified_gmt":"2023-06-15T15:44:24","slug":"is-it-than-i-or-than-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/?p=476","title":{"rendered":"Is it &#8220;than I&#8221; or &#8220;than me&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Short answer: It&#8217;s both! <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Than&#8221; in these constructions can function as a conjunction or a preposition, which just means you can end a sentence like: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This person is better at spelling than I am.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">OR<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;This person is better at spelling than me.&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And be right either way. All you have to do is decide if you want to sound more formal (I) or casual (me). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For more information, as usual, just ask <a href=\"https:\/\/www.merriam-webster.com\/words-at-play\/than-what-follows-it-and-why\">Merriam Webster<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Short answer: It&#8217;s both! &#8220;Than&#8221; in these constructions can function as a conjunction or a preposition, which just means you can end a sentence like: &#8220;This person is better at spelling than I am.&#8221; OR &#8220;This person is better at spelling than me.&#8221; And be right either way. All you have to do is decide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maggiebillard.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}