“As Me” or “As I”?

Most people say something like “as funny as me,” but they’d be wrong! Add the verb to the end—”As funny as I am.” Now you can tell that “I” is correct.

The trick is to see what you get when you supply that terminal verb, though technically you don’t have to supply it in the actual sentence. It just helps you get it right.

Credit to Buzz Sawyer (well, Roy Crane) for getting it right. Third Panel.

I confess, she doesn’t strike me as the type who’d get this right…

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Are these maybe sandhee (putting together) in reverse, or perhaps mondegreens (misinterpreting combined words) backwards? I don’t know the official name for what this comic is doing. Maybe one of you actual experts out there can enlighten me.

You can look up sandhee and mondegreen by putting each word in the search box.

Useful lesson: I used “each” because you need to look them up one at a time. If I had used “both,” that would have implied putting both words in the search field at once, and that won’t work.

I post these examples because so many people get “comprise” wrong. (NEVER say “is comprised of”!) This comic gets it wrong another way. The second panel in the second row:

“Comprise” goes from the single big thing to the many parts. An example: The early US comprised 13 states. You could say that “comprise” is the less wordy equivalent to “is composed of.” But here “composed” would have been okay. He’s going from the many (millions of polygons) to the big whole (the material world). In other words, those polygons compose the world.

Oh well.

This is a fairly common error, so the strip is worth mentioning, but the person who made the mistake would not have done it. Oh well, you wouldn’t have seen the strip if she had been her usual self.

The part about her not being a good driver is in character, though.

Here’s the difference between a professional and an amateur when it comes to writing.

A professional is glad to get a critique; an amateur wants only praise.

See below:

Sorry, she’s an amateur. Be a professional.