Grammar Nazi: Lessons 6
You're getting a couple of freebies here. Sorry to load you up two days in a row, but this is all stemming from conversations surrounding the same article.
Years of Experience
If you have five years of experience, then you have five years' experience. If you have done seven hours of work, then you have done seven hours' work. Notice the apostrophes in the second half of those sentences.
Better Than Me
You do it better than I, not better than me, because if you finish the clause, it's "you do it better than I do." It would be improper to say "you do it better than me do," so use "I" in those cases. However, you can be better than me at something. The trick (mostly) is whether "I" or "me" can be followed by a verb.
You should probably like it more, not better
On that note, you can do something better than someone else, but you like something more than someone else. If you say you like something "better" than I do, then you're saying that the quality of your liking it is superior to my liking of it -- this is fine and is technically not incorrect grammar, but it is incorrect because you're not saying what you mean to say.
However, it is acceptable to say you "like it better" when, for example, you're telling a cook that you like your eggs better than he/she has prepared them. But I don't recommend saying that aloud.
Years of Experience
If you have five years of experience, then you have five years' experience. If you have done seven hours of work, then you have done seven hours' work. Notice the apostrophes in the second half of those sentences.
Better Than Me
You do it better than I, not better than me, because if you finish the clause, it's "you do it better than I do." It would be improper to say "you do it better than me do," so use "I" in those cases. However, you can be better than me at something. The trick (mostly) is whether "I" or "me" can be followed by a verb.
You should probably like it more, not better
On that note, you can do something better than someone else, but you like something more than someone else. If you say you like something "better" than I do, then you're saying that the quality of your liking it is superior to my liking of it -- this is fine and is technically not incorrect grammar, but it is incorrect because you're not saying what you mean to say.
However, it is acceptable to say you "like it better" when, for example, you're telling a cook that you like your eggs better than he/she has prepared them. But I don't recommend saying that aloud.