A question from JH:
In Wuthering Heights, Heathcliff says (Chapter 7): ‘Well, I cried last night,’ he returned, ‘and I had more reason to cry than she.’
Shouldn’t it be ‘more reason to cry than her?’
Than may be thought of as a preposition. Hence it would be followed by an object pronoun. However, I should say it is primarily a conjunction which requires a subject and predicate. The latter tends to be omitted due to ellipsis.
It is more euphonious for me to say, ‘John is taller than I.’ What it really means is that ‘John is taller than I am.’ However, most people say, ‘John is taller than me.’
