A Clear Difference Between “We” and “Us”
rogersgeorge on December 30th, 2023
“We” is the nominative form, “Us” is the objective. We’re supposed to use “we” as a subject, and “us” as an object. This guy gets it wrong, even though the wrong way is pretty common. First speech in the second panel. The sentence contains an ellipsis (left some words out), which confuses the structure.
The full construction, without the ellipsis, would be “That woman needed it more than we needed it.” Use “us,” and you’re saying “she needed it more than she needed us.” Heh, of course that might be true, too.
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