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Anonymous Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
"my team and I" or "my team and me"
Hello
I was hoping someone could help settle a debate.
I sent the following email
"We need to get the teams and the criteria for winning published ASAP – because I know your dirty cheatin’ mob will start at the it’s not this its that patter to try to cheat my team and I out of a free dinner"
The highlighted section has caused no end of debate around whether this is grammatically correct or whether this should be “my team and me”
English teachers have been phoned and agreement is split.
Could someone please clarify this for me and include the rule of grammar this follows, as to settle this debate it will need a solid explanation.
Please help our there will be no work done tomorrow.
I was hoping someone could help settle a debate.
I sent the following email
"We need to get the teams and the criteria for winning published ASAP – because I know your dirty cheatin’ mob will start at the it’s not this its that patter to try to cheat my team and I out of a free dinner"
The highlighted section has caused no end of debate around whether this is grammatically correct or whether this should be “my team and me”
English teachers have been phoned and agreement is split.
Could someone please clarify this for me and include the rule of grammar this follows, as to settle this debate it will need a solid explanation.
Please help our there will be no work done tomorrow.
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Anonymous Anon, Before I comment on your post, there are errors you need to correct as I don;t quite know exactly what you mean. <<<Hello I was hoping someone could help settle a debate. – because I know your dirty cheatin’ mob will start at the it’s not this its that patter to try to cheat my team and I out of a free dinner" The highlighted section has caused no end of debate around whether this is grammatically correct or whether this should be “my team and me” Is thispart of the e-mail, or your question?
- Anonymous Anon, Before I comment on your post, there are errors you need to correct as I don;t quite know exactly what you mean.
- <<<Hello I was hoping someone could help settle a debate.
- – because I know your dirty cheatin’ mob will start at the it’s not this its that patter to try to cheat my team and I out of a free dinner" The highlighted section has caused no end of debate around whether this is grammatically correct or whether this should be “my team and me” Is thispart of the e-mail, or your question?
- English teachers have been phoned and agreement is split.
- Could someone please clarify this for me and include the rule of grammar this follows, as to settle this debate it will need a solid explanation.
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AnonymousAnon,
Before I comment on your post, there are errors you need to correct as I don;t quite know exactly what you mean.
<<<Hello
I was hoping someone could help settle a debate.
I sent the following email
"We need to get the teams [to do what] and the criteria for winning published ASAP ?– because I know your
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Anonymous
"We need to get the teams and the criteria for winning published ASAP – because I know your dirty cheatin’ mob will start at the it’s not this its that patter to try to cheat my team and I out of a free dinner"
The highlighted section has caused no end of debate around whether this is grammatically correct or whether this should be “my team and me”
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'My team and I' are the objects of the phrasal infinitive verb 'to cheat out of'. Because they are in object position, they should take the object form. The object form of 'I' is 'me' Thus, it should be 'my team and me'
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I would argue that it should simply be 'my team'. You are a member of the team so adding my team and me would in my opinion be duplicating what is self evident. That you are a member.!!
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Very simple rule. You take out the "my team and" and see if it makes sense.
You would get "to try to cheat I out of a free dinner." Doesn't make sense. So it's "my team and me" in that context.
However, "my team and I would be cheated out of a free dinner" would be correct because you would say "I would be cheated out of a free dinner" and not "me would be cheated out of a fr
You would get "to try to cheat I out of a free dinner." Doesn't make sense. So it's "my team and me" in that context.
However, "my team and I would be cheated out of a free dinner" would be correct because you would say "I would be cheated out of a free dinner" and not "me would be cheated out of a fr
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