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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar

Acceptable pronoun combination

Native English speakers consider this sentence "Me and John are friends" as acceptable while this sentence "John and me are friends". They have same structure and they only differ in terms of their order as subjects.Why is that so? Is there any explanation to that?
  

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Anonymous Native English speakers consider this sentence "Me and John are friends" as acceptable while this sentence "John and me are friends". No, we who are literate do not. It is substandard.

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous Native English speakers consider this sentence "Me and John are friends" as acceptable while this sentence "John and me are friends".
  • No, we who are literate do not.
  • It is substandard.
  • This is accepted standard informal and formal English: John and I are friends .
  • It is polite to put the other person's name first and oneself last.
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AnonymousNative English speakers consider this sentence "Me and John are friends" as acceptable while this sentence "John and me are friends".
No, we who are literate do not. It is substandard.

This is accepted standard informal and formal English: John and I are friends. It is polite to put the other person's name first and oneself la
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