From the Trump-Harris Debate

I thought I’d take this extremely powerful meme based on the recent Trump-Harris debate and make a borderline pedantic comment about grammar.

Each of these statements, if phrased correctly, would be in the form of what is called a “predicate nominative.”  For example, “She is stronger than he.”  That’s because the verb “to be” (in this case “is”) never takes an object.

Now, does this sound stilted, as if it’s coming from a 75-year-old English teacher?  Yes, which is why I try not to use this construction, and instead write, “She is stronger than he is.”

In any case, and far more importantly, everything the author here is asserting about Harris is correct.