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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar

I versus Me

A friend of mine broght this up and I seriously need your professional help.

When your significant other says "I love you", we usually reply "me too" or "I love you,too".

Questions:

1. Why can't we say "I, too" instead? The basis of the argument is that "I" is the subject, the action doer. So it has to be "I".

2. Is "Me too" grammatically correct? My friend argues that "me" is the direct object, thus it can not be used as a subject"

3. How about "I, too, love you"?

4. How about "I also love you"?

Thank you very much.

Ethan
  

Top answer

"me too" is idiomatic, even in cases when "me" is technically the subject, and there's little point analysing it beyond that. In response to "I love you", the only idiomatic response, of the options you have presented, is "I love you too".

— Mr Wordy

  • "me too" is idiomatic, even in cases when "me" is technically the subject, and there's little point analysing it beyond that.
  • In response to "I love you", the only idiomatic response, of the options you have presented, is "I love you too".
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"me too" is idiomatic, even in cases when "me" is technically the subject, and there's little point analysing it beyond that.

In response to "I love you", the only idiomatic response, of the options you have presented, is "I love you too".
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Anonymous Is "Me too" grammatically correct?
Yes. The argument is often made that the so-called subject forms are really not subject-forms at all, but forms that occur before a finite verb. The so-called object-forms are then used for all other situations, so the argument goes.

With no verb at all, the pronoun doesn't stand before a verb, so "me" is
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