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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar
Me or I
Hi everyone, I'm looking for clarification on the sentences below:
"My family consists of three people: my mother, my father and me."
I'm guessing "me" is correct here as it's fairy clearly an object.
In this sentence however,
"There are three people in my family: my mother, my father and I"
I think it's correct to use "I", as here, although it would seem at first glance to be an object, it's actually a subject (my source for this is Swan, who describes "there" as a preparatory subject, with the true subject coming after the verb).
Can anyone give me confirmation on this? I'm asking because even though the theory seems right, the sound of the second sentence still feels a tad jarring...
Thanks in advance,
Simon
"My family consists of three people: my mother, my father and me."
I'm guessing "me" is correct here as it's fairy clearly an object.
In this sentence however,
"There are three people in my family: my mother, my father and I"
I think it's correct to use "I", as here, although it would seem at first glance to be an object, it's actually a subject (my source for this is Swan, who describes "there" as a preparatory subject, with the true subject coming after the verb).
Can anyone give me confirmation on this? I'm asking because even though the theory seems right, the sound of the second sentence still feels a tad jarring...
Thanks in advance,
Simon
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Anonymous "There are three people in my family: my mother, my father and I" That is correct, but many people would use me .
- Anonymous "There are three people in my family: my mother, my father and I" That is correct, but many people would use me .
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Anonymous"There are three people in my family: my mother, my father and I"That is correct, but many people would use me.
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Thank you fivejedjon. That was my thinking also,
I seems like it's such a pernickety piece of grammar that in conversation at least it's said incorrectly, and thus sounds strange when we apply grammatical logic to it.
I seems like it's such a pernickety piece of grammar that in conversation at least it's said incorrectly, and thus sounds strange when we apply grammatical logic to it.
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