You and I vs. You and Me

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Which is correct?"Make John and me proud."or"Make John and I proud."and why?Thank you.

Matfever · Accepted Answer

I think

Make John and me proud.

is correct.

But I dont know why.

Canadian45 · Answer

AnonymousWhich is correct? "Make John and me proud." [Y]
"Make John and I proud." [N] and why? Because you need the object pronoun "me" to be the object of the verb "make".

Thank you.
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DimmingSky · Answer

Thank you both  (this was my question, i made an account)

Canadian45 · Answer

manhthieugia95I think "Make John and me proud." is correct. But I dont know why.
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Matfever · Answer

canadian45
manhthieugia95I think "Make John and me proud." is correct. But I dont know why.
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Why do I have to do this?

Mister Micawber · Answer

You need quotation marks around the sentence you are quoting, but you do not use the internal period. You also need an apostrophe, and you should really recast it as a compound sentence, since 'but' is generally a poor way for learners to begin a sentence:

I think "Make John and me proud" is correct, but I don't know why.

Canadian45 · Answer

I think "Make John and me proud." is correct.

manhthieugia95 Why do I have to do this?

You have to do it because you can't put that one sentence on three separate lines. It's one continuous sentence and thought.

Imantaghavi · Answer

Hi,

Of course the second one,because you need an object pronoun here

.

Regards

Iman

Canadian45 · Answer

Mister MicawberYou need quotation marks around the sentence you are quoting, but you do not use the internal period.
I think "Make John and me proud" is correct, but I don't know why.

1) I disagree! How does one quote something and at the same time change it? This is my main objection to the absence of the "internal period".

2) There is a rule against double punctuation, but it doesn't seem sensible to apply it to the underlined sentence.

On the other hand, consider the sentence below.

What he (said)(wrote) is "Make John and me proud."

If one were to put a period at the very end of the above sentence, there would be two periods separated only by the quotation mark. That would be the double punctuuation language experts dislike.

To me, the underlined sentence is very different. The period after "proud", which I think absolutely should be there, would be far removed from the period at the end of the sentence, and those two periods, in my opinion, could not reasonably be considered to be double punctuuation.

You also need an apostrophe, and you should really recast it as a compound sentence, since 'but' is generally a poor way for learners to begin a sentence:

I think "Make John and me proud" is correct, but I don't know why. The logical answer is that it's not correct, because it has no period.

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Canadian45 · Answer

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