I and Me

[UmangMathur]

I was going through a book, "Word Power Made Easy" and encountered an apparently simple question, which baffled me.

The question is:

Your husband doesn't believe that you are older than (I / Me).

I am confident about the answer, I, but the book says the answer should be "Me".

Please help.

Cheers!!!
Umang

[eagleeye]

I was going through a book, "Word Power Made Easy" and encountered an apparently simple question, which baffled me.

The question is:

Your husband doesn't believe that you are older than (I / Me).

I am confident about the answer, I, but the book says the answer should be "Me".

Please help.

Cheers!!!
Umang

Hi UmangMathur:

I am going to tell you how I decide so that it sticks for good.

You just need to remember 3 rules:

First: If the Pronoun is the subject, use I, He, She, We etc.
Examples: These are all grammatically correct.

John is going.
We are going.
I am going.
She is going.
She and I are going.
John and I are going.

Rule 2: If the pronoun is the object, use me, him, her, us etc.

Examples:
The dog was following me.
The dog was following John.
The dog was following John and me.
We looked after Karen and her.

Rule 3: If the pronoun comes after a preposition, use the objective case (as in Rule 2)

Between you and me, this never happened.
This ribbon belongs to me.

So in the example you provided, "me" is in the objective and hence correct.
You(subject) are older than me (object).

In the same way, the following sentence is correct:
I am older than all of them.

Let me know if this helps

[pallav.gmat]

Here 'me' will be there as it has to be in objective case.
'your husband doesnt believe' - clause 1 ( main or indep clause)
'that you are older than me' - clause 2 (dep clause)

Concentrating on clause 2, we can see that 'you' is the subject. 'me' has to be there on the object place.

Hope it helps.