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Old 16-Jan-2005, 15:09
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Can one say:

a. I have better.
b. I have better than you.

instead of:

c. I have better results/information etc. (depending on the context).
d. I have better restults/information etc. than you.
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Originally Posted by azz
Can one say:

a. I have better.
b. I have better than you.

instead of:

c. I have better results/information etc. (depending on the context).
d. I have better restults/information etc. than you.
In the first sentence, you are trying to use better as a noun. It doesn't work. In the second sentence, better is being used as an adjective, but the noun it is supposed to be modifying is missing.

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