Dislocation

Both.

Mister MicawberBoth.

Thanks. I don't meet many people who use both.

MilkyWhich, if any, do you use?

A. I, I wouldn't trust him at all.

B. Me, I wouldn't trust him at all.

To me only sentence A is correct.

Yoong Liat

MilkyWhich, if any, do you use?

A. I, I wouldn't trust him at all.

B. Me, I wouldn't trust him at all.

To me only sentence A is correct.

I think that you're correct, but both are used, see in the NYT:

I think sentence A is different from the sentence provided by you.

A. I, I wouldn't trust him at all. (In this sentence, I is being emphasised. It's like I, I want to kill him. This is my interpretation of sentence A.)

You wrote: "If it was me, I wouldn't do that.'' In formal English, your sentence would read as "If it was I, I wouldn

Yoong LiatTo me only sentence A is correct.

Really? And why?

Yoong LiatI think sentence A is different from the sentence provided by you.

A. I, I wouldn't trust him at all. (In this sentence, I is being emphasised. It's like I, I want to kill him. This is my interpretation of sentence A.)

You wrote: "If it was me, I wouldn't do that.'' In formal English, your sentence would read

Formal means "of spoken and written language, adhering to traditional standards of correctness and without casual, contracted, and colloquial forms (Example: "The paper was written in formal English")

Milky

Yoong Liat
To me only sentence A is correct.

Really? And why?

A. I, I wouldn't trust him at all. (In this sentence, I is being emphasised. It's like I, I want to kill him. This is my interpretation of sentence A.)

B. Me, I wouldn't trust him at all.

Me, I'd most likely to attribute any use of sentence A to a slight stutter.


Seriously, though, I might possibly use