Friday, September 4, 2015

ellipsis - Is "she was younger than he" a grammatically correct expression?


I am reading an e-book named In Cold Blood written by Truman Capote, in which I read a sentence as:



...the person he had wished to marry——the sister of a college classmate, a...girl named Bonnie Fox, who was three years younger than he.



I am doubting about the correctness of that expression "was younger than he", In my mind, it should be "was younger than him".


Is "She was younger than he" (and like "She is older than I")a grammatically correct expression?





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