(1) My sister arrived at the movie theater before I. Do you suppose that the oddness of the above sentence has more to do with sentence stress than with ellipsis? "I" gets a heavier stress in this sentence-final position than we are used to hearing. Consider how much more "normal" the following sounds, even though purists would argue its correctness: (2) My sister arrived at the movie theater before me. Since we tend to hear "I" more frequently in sentence-initial positions and "me" in more sentence-final positions, our ears are more accustomed to a light "I" and a heavy "me." __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Send instant messages & get email alerts with Yahoo! Messenger. http://im.yahoo.com/