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Me and my friends?

Do you think 'me and my friends' is acceptable in a language learning aid meant for children of ten or eleven years?
Or should I opt for grammatical but stilted "my friends and I"? Thanks in anticipation for any advice
Regards
Kris
  

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[nq:1]Do you think 'me and my friends' is acceptable in a language learning aid meant for children of ten or eleven years? Or should I opt for grammatical but stilted "my friends and I"? Thanks in anticipation for any advice Regards Kris[/nq] Would you like to play with my friends and me?

  • [nq:1]Do you think 'me and my friends' is acceptable in a language learning aid meant for children of ten or eleven years?
  • Or should I opt for grammatical but stilted "my friends and I"?
  • Thanks in anticipation for any advice Regards Kris[/nq] Would you like to play with my friends and me?
  • My friends and I are going to the movies.
  • 10 or 11?
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[nq:1]Do you think 'me and my friends' is acceptable in a language learning aid meant for children of ten or eleven years? Or should I opt for grammatical but stilted "my friends and I"? Thanks in anticipation for any advice Regards Kris[/nq]
Would you like to play with my friends and me?
My friends and I are going to the movies.
10 or 11? Sorry, my 6-1/2 year old 'gets' this."I" do th
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[nq:1]Do you think 'me and my friends' is acceptable in a language learning aid meant for children of ten or eleven years? Or should I opt for grammatical but stilted "my friends and I"?[/nq]
You seem not to have understood:
Personal pronoun I is the nominative case
i.e. is grammatically correct as the subject of a verb. Personal pronoun me is the accusative case
i.e. is grammatica
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[nq:2]Do you think 'me and my friends' is acceptable in ... and I"? Thanks in anticipation for any advice Regards Kris[/nq]
[nq:1]Would you like to play with my friends and me? My friends and I are going to the movies. 10 ... correct their poor grammar, that's the teachers' job). Note: there are two teachers, but they really have the same job.[/nq]
And it's quite wrong, I think, to call "m
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[nq:1]Do you think 'me and my friends' is acceptable in a language learning aid meant for children of ten or eleven years?[/nq]
You're thinking of having an aid that will teach them bad grammar?

I would call it a handicap.
Chidren are not too stupid to learn good English.
[nq:1]Or should I opt for grammatical but stilted "my friends and I"? Thanks in anticipation for an
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[nq:1]Do you think 'me and my friends' is acceptable in a language learning aid meant for children of ten or eleven years? Or should I opt for grammatical but stilted "my friends and I"? Thanks in anticipation for any advice Regards[/nq]
You, as a teacher, must teach the correct way, especially to children. Soon enough they will pick up the mannerisms of the region and society types that they
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[nq:1]Do you think 'me and my friends' is acceptable in a language learning aid meant for children of ten or eleven years? Or should I opt for grammatical but stilted "my friends and I"? Thanks in anticipation for any advice Regards Kris[/nq]
There are two questions here: grammar and politeness.

A sentence such as "I and my friends live in the city" violates a rule of politeness: It s
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[nq:1]There are two questions here: grammar and politeness. A sentence such as "I and my friends live in the city" ... grammar in standard dialects. In some nonstandard dialects, "Me and my friends live in the city" would be unquestionably grammatical.[/nq]
Indubitably. But it brings us up hard against the underlying political nature of these discussions. As I've said before and I admit I lack
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[nq:1]In some nonstandard dialects, "Me and my friends live in the city" would be unquestionably grammatical. Raymond S. Wise Minneapolis, Minnesota USA E-mail: mplsray @ yahoo . com[/nq]
Not to put words in your mouth, are you suggesting that this is not just a case of poor grammar, but an accepted 'dialect'? In which case 'me' takes on the characteristic of a subject in certain dialects?
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[nq:2]In some nonstandard dialects, "Me and my friends live in the city" would be unquestionably grammatical.[/nq]
[nq:1]Not to put words in your mouth, are you suggesting that this is not just a case of poor grammar, but an accepted 'dialect'?[/nq]
(Having been a regular reader of Ray Wise's contributions to AEU for some years, I would hazard a guess of "Yes" as being his reply.)
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[nq:1]Do you think 'me and my friends' is acceptable in a language learning aid meant for children of ten or eleven years? Or should I opt for grammatical but stilted "my friends and I"? Thanks in anticipation for any advice Regards Kris[/nq]
ME = object / I = subject.
Am I right?
Best,
Arthur

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