You Are Younger Than Me

Younger than is the correct usage.

You are younger than me. Younger is a comparative adjective which as the name suggests are used to compare differences between the two objects they modify larger smaller faster higher. It s just a couple of more years until i m older than the majority of the population. Lucky jane i think your teacher slipped up and it isn t clear to me what precise point they were trying to make. I found the chart informative and i wanted to replicate it but in a way that helps people from every country to answer that question.

Personally i ve only heard people say jane is younger than joan dictionaries describe than as a conjunction as a word used for comparisons. Noun subject verb comparative adjective than noun object. Both use than as a conjunction but when you use the subject pronoun i you re saying aardvark likes squiggly more than i like squiggly and when you use the object pronoun me you re saying aardvark likes squiggly more than aardvark likes me. On tuesday may 10th 2016 nathan yau created and published a chart that allows us to learn the percentage of people older and younger than a person from the u s.

Grammarwise the structural ambiguity arises from the homonym than sometiems serving as a. Younger workers who spend more time on social media sites than older generations feel that you can relate to their lives better if you re on social media channels. The second construction he is younger than me is using than as a preposition and this construction has been around since the c16. I dated a gorgeous guy 11 years younger than me 25 vs 36 for a couple of months.

If you see than as a conjunction then he is younger than i is correct. Given his her age based on the 5 year american community survey estimates from 2014. At first he was super into me acted like we were together took me to hang out with his friends acted like he adored me and you could see he tried to act more mature to be more on my level. However when i did some more more research i discovered that the distinction also hinges on whether you regard than as a conjunction or preposition.

I say younger than me taking the than as a preposition and i rarely hear yougher than i pattern. Of course my 50 year old self is going to look back at this and laugh at how stupid i am. Jane is taller than joan jane is smarter than joan and so on.