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Grammar12 Posted 21 years ago
Grammar
'Me' or 'I' here, thanks....I know there's a rule but I've forgotten
So the other night I was explaining my office set up to a guy and I said,
"it's just a bunch of attorneys and me." He said 'it's I' and you can figure it out by adding or omitting some of the sentence.....I know this holds true if I said "the girls and me are going for a walk" (of course it would be "the girls and I" because "me" isn't a subject and one wouldn't say "me is going for a walk") but I don't think it's the same. Is it?
Could you help??????
Thank you. I'm not too sure how to use this site, perhaps I'll look back tomorrow and see if there's an answer under the postings. Thanks.
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"it's just a bunch of attorneys and me." He said 'it's I' and you can figure it out by adding or omitting some of the sentence.....I know this holds true if I said "the girls and me are going for a walk" (of course it would be "the girls and I" because "me" isn't a subject and one wouldn't say "me is going for a walk") but I don't think it's the same. Is it?
Could you help??????
Thank you. I'm not too sure how to use this site, perhaps I'll look back tomorrow and see if there's an answer under the postings. Thanks.
!!
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The preposition "of" takes "us, me, them" as its object: EX: It's just a bunch of us who are going. (OK) EX: It's just a bunch of us office guys who are going. (OK) EX: It's just a bunch of attorneys and me who are going.
- The preposition "of" takes "us, me, them" as its object: EX: It's just a bunch of us who are going.
- (OK) EX: It's just a bunch of us office guys who are going.
- (OK) EX: It's just a bunch of attorneys and me who are going.
- (OK) If you replace the phrase "attorneys and me" with "we", it renders the sentence ungrammatical: EX: *It's just a bunch of we who are going.
- That test tells us that "us, me" is the correct usage in that context.
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The preposition "of" takes "us, me, them" as its object:
EX: It's just a bunch of us who are going. (OK)
EX: It's just a bunch of us office guys who are going. (OK)
EX: It's just a bunch of attorneys and me who are going. (OK)
If you replace the phrase "attorneys and me" with "we", it renders the sentence ungrammatical:
EX: *It's just a bunch of we who are
EX: It's just a bunch of us who are going. (OK)
EX: It's just a bunch of us office guys who are going. (OK)
EX: It's just a bunch of attorneys and me who are going. (OK)
If you replace the phrase "attorneys and me" with "we", it renders the sentence ungrammatical:
EX: *It's just a bunch of we who are
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Here's what Longman says:
When you are speaking you usually use me, her, him, us, and them after "as", "than", and the verb "to be", and with "and" and "or" in a phrase that is the subject of a clause:
EX.: I'm not as pretty as her. | She's older than him. | It's them. | Tanya and me are off to Acapulco, or even Me and Tanya are off to Acapulco.
In very formal or old-fas
When you are speaking you usually use me, her, him, us, and them after "as", "than", and the verb "to be", and with "and" and "or" in a phrase that is the subject of a clause:
EX.: I'm not as pretty as her. | She's older than him. | It's them. | Tanya and me are off to Acapulco, or even Me and Tanya are off to Acapulco.
In very formal or old-fas
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Excellent find, Miche.
Longman, though, is not really prescribing we use 'me' as the subject (e.g., Tanya and me are off to Acapulco) or that using "me" in that context is grammatical. Longman is describing what speakers do. There are reasons for that distribution, which Longman apparently doesn't go into. "Tanya and me. . . . " is speaker friendly, but nontheless ungrammatical, and so
Longman, though, is not really prescribing we use 'me' as the subject (e.g., Tanya and me are off to Acapulco) or that using "me" in that context is grammatical. Longman is describing what speakers do. There are reasons for that distribution, which Longman apparently doesn't go into. "Tanya and me. . . . " is speaker friendly, but nontheless ungrammatical, and so
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