Find the mistake

11 Nov 2025 · 0 min

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Brief YouTube transcript in which Hadar Shemesh corrects a speaker's sentence. The learner says forms like 'She's better in math than me.' Hadar instructs that the collocation is 'better at' and models the full comparative pronoun form: 'She's better at math than I am.' The excerpt is a short dialogue highlighting preposition choice ('in' → 'at') and comparative pronoun correctness.

Where is the mistake and what is the correct form?
She's better in.
Math than me.
She is better.
At math than I am.
She's better.
At math than I am.
When you say better, you use at right after. Better at.
I'm better.
At speaking, than writing. I'm better at cooking than she is. I'm better at cooking than she is. Better than me is okay in informal English. In daily conversations, that's probably what I would say. You're better at it than me. But informal English, it's better to use than I am. Better than I am. Better use the subject pronoun and not the object pronoun.