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Question

Which one of these is the most correct:

Billy had more money than him.
Billy had more money than he had.
Billy had more money than he.

AimHigher · Answer

Billy is the subject and him will be the object

him is the correct usage

johnycute · Answer

Billy had more money than he had

khaos · Answer

I think it should be "Billy had more money than him"

mbagal1 · Answer

I actually liked: Billy had more money than he (did). 

The easiest way to check is to switch the two and see if the sentence holds grammatically. 

Him had more money than Billy.

He had more money than Billy had. 

He had more money than Billy.

I have a long way to go with Sentence correction though, so I could be wrong.

ellisje22 · Answer

I asked an English teacher, and she told me this:

Both two and three are correct, and actually the same. In number three, the word "had" is understood.

The word "than" requires that the words following it have a complete subject-verb relationship. And you do have that with the words "he had."

The word "him," as incorrectly used in the first sentence, is the objective
form. "Him" would follow a preposition such as "to" or "with."

Here are examples:

Billy runs more often than she.
or -- Billy runs more often than she runs.

Billy runs with her.
or -- Billy runs to her.

subhen · Answer

I agree with the above explanation.

Since the comparision is between 2 subjects: Billy and He we should use subject pronoun He instead of object pronoun Him.

Hence both below sentences are correct

Billy had more money than he had. (this one is better for the reason mentioned before)
Billy had more money than he.

AimHigher · Answer

Thanks for the clarification guys. 

I don't know what I was thinking when I selected "him" as the choice.

Just reversing the order of sentence should have helped

asaf · Answer

Both 2 and 3 are good. 'had' is implied in 3.

We can't use object-prononuns (him, her, them etc) to compare with subject.

Andr359 · Answer

ShouldnÂ´t it be 

Billy had more money than he did

In Gmatland, IÂ´ve only run into "I had", "you had", etc, when had was used as an auxiliary to form the past perfect. For example

I had left two hours before the club closed, and they had too.

Also, whether the subject or the object form of the noun goes after than depends on the sentence.

1) If you say

She has more money than he does

She has money, he has money. He is the subject of the 2nd clause and thus keeps the original subject form of the noun.

2) If you say

She gave more pencils to Billy than to him

She gave pencils to Billy, she gave pencils to him. Him is the object of the 2nd clause and thus has to be in the object form of the noun.

Comments/suggestions welcome.

mbagal1 · Answer

That's what I thought also. That is why I chose the third option with did being implied.

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