This is a great topic, by the way. Something I hear with great regularity is when a person is the object of a verb or preposition along with another individual and uses "I" when the correct word is "me. Like many grammar related issues, this one gets on my nerves! Like Reply Report 1 month ago. Please reconsider example one: "Casey gave Sarah and me his guns. Thank you. Like Reply Report 1 4 months ago.
This is correct. I've also replaced the common noun to 'ticket' - much friendlier than guns ; Thanks for spotting this! Should be me vs should be I.
Former sounds right; latter not so much. Take it out of the passive voice and it's clearly, I should. Like Reply Report 1 10 months ago.
David Bikker. Except that I always hear "Is it him or me? Like Reply Report 1 year ago. Max Klein. That's why grammar should always be descriptive, not prescriptive If you hold on to a principle established by a set rule and don't use the language like the people around you use it, you'll eventually end up being misunderstood Of hem that written ous tofore the bokes duelle, and we therfore ben tawht of that was write tho more ».
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Meanings Meanings. Dependent Clauses. So what exactly does that mean? The difference between I and me The pronoun I can be used as the subject of a sentence, and me can only be used as the object of one. Examples of I in a sentence I fixed the remote control. March 2, , at am. May 17, , at am. May 18, , at pm.
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