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Pink Berries Posted 19 years ago
Grammar

"...Between you and...." - i - or - me - please

0Hello, Everyone ..I have a question here :02br
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00 * She sits between you and01i00___02i00.02br
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00The answer should be " I " ...... or " Me "02br
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00Thanks for all. 050010id1
  

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02br 02br 00It helps if you turn the words round: I bet you would not have said: 01i 00Between I and you02i 0-

  • 02br 02br 00It helps if you turn the words round: I bet you would not have said: 01i 00Between I and you02i 0-
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0The correct answer is "me".02br
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00It helps if you turn the words round: I bet you would not have said: 01i00Between I and you02i0-
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0 From the BBC:02br
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00 Perhaps it's an example of hypercorrection - 01font00like "between you and I"02br
00 where "I" should grammatically be "me", but many say "I" for fear of02br
00 getting the wrong case.02font
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0 00Thanks Forbes00 and Marius Hancu ..so the correct grammar is " me "?00 0-
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0If you can replace it with "we", then it's "you and I" (for example: You and I have been friends for years)02br
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00If you can replace it with "us", then it's "you and me" (for example, She sat down between you and me)0-
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01cite10Pink Berries12cite10Thanks Forbes10 and Marius Hancu ..so the correct grammar is " me "?12blockquote
10In your example, yes. 0-
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0Oh 05000 Thanks all in here.. I got it010id2
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0hmm.. but sometimes I see english speaking people say02br
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00" He got a bit upset when 01b01u00me02u02b00 and Lisa got together "02br
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00Why shouldn't this sentence be 01u01b00" I and Lisa "02b02u00 instead of 01b01u00" me and Lisa "02u02b
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01cite10Pink Berries12cite10" He got a bit upset when 11b11u10me12u12b10 and Lisa got together "12br
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10Why shouldn't this sentence be 11u11b10" I and Lisa "12b12u10 instead of 11b11u10" me and Lisa "12u12b
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0Hi Kooyeen , Thank you... From what you wrote it has helped me very much! 05002br
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00That's also what I notice from native speakers but I can't realise what is correct. 051010id211id1
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01cite10Kooyeen12cite11b10He was sitting between mary and myself.12b10 11font10(11u10not correct, but used anyway.12u10 I think that "between myself and Mary" would not be idiomatic here, however)12font12blockquote
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