Quick question, internets!

[sofiaviolet]

Which sounds more correct?

But he was only as tall as her, and prone to slouching.

But he was only as tall as she, and prone to slouching.

I am hoping my professor was trying to correct it to "she was" and just forgot to write in half of it. "She was," btw, will be my compromise between his wtaf correction and my increasingly-acceptable original.

Comments

[thesamefire.livejournal.com]

SOMEBODY read Schutze (2001) "On the nature of default case"!

I don't know why, but that's one of my favourite articles ever. I guess because it is good reading both lingustically and for a grammar nerd.

[go-gentle.livejournal.com]

Oh man, I pulled that article up, and I don't have time to do more than skim right now, but that looks so interesting.

[thesamefire.livejournal.com]

he just makes a really, really compelling argument! and you get that dose of "OH! an explanation for something I've always kind of wondered about!"