He's two years older than I.

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Untaught88

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Hi,

Are the following correct?

He's two years older than I.
He's older than I by two years.
He's senior to me by two years.
He's two years senior to me.
 
Nearly every Anglophone would use me in all four sentences. A few amateur grammarians continue to tell them they're wrong.
 
Note that 'senior' can have a meaning different from 'older'.
 
He's two years older than me.
 
Nearly every Anglophone would use me in all four sentences. A few amateur grammarians continue to tell them they're wrong.

That is, some people insist that I is the only "correct" pronoun in the first two sentences. Your teachers may be among them, so you should find out what they prefer. Native Anglophones hardly ever use I in sentences like your samples.
 
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