Pedantic moment: Sometimes it's and me, not and I.
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Pedantic moment: Sometimes it's and me, not and I.
Common mistake:
~He gave it to my friend and I~ --> He gave it to my friend and me
because if "my friend" wasn't there, it would be "...to me" not "... to I."Almost always done correctly:
~My friend and me took a vacation~ --> My friend and I took a vacation
because if "my friend' wasn't there, it would be "I took..." not "me took.."I, too, had more than one teacher who taught me that "[person] and me" should always be changed to "[person] and I", but then I had two years of Catholic school, which (in my case) meant two years of diagramming sentences and learning about direct objects, etc.
This really isn't the most important thing. I don't personally care very much, but I try to get it right when I write and talk, and I have a very tiny eye twitch when I see it wrong; not a big eye twitch, just a small one.
Context so you know exactly what level of language asshole pedant I am:
- Almost no eye twitch: It's time to lay down for the night
- Small eye twitch: It was a phone call for Jenny and I
- Medium eye twitch: This is how it looks like (but also I smile and think this one is cute, for some reason)
- Big eye twitch: I will never step foot in that house again
- Gigantic eye twitch and someone in the house has to talk me down from writing a 500-word reply-rant: This is based off of...
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Pedantic moment: Sometimes it's and me, not and I.
Common mistake:
~He gave it to my friend and I~ --> He gave it to my friend and me
because if "my friend" wasn't there, it would be "...to me" not "... to I."Almost always done correctly:
~My friend and me took a vacation~ --> My friend and I took a vacation
because if "my friend' wasn't there, it would be "I took..." not "me took.."I, too, had more than one teacher who taught me that "[person] and me" should always be changed to "[person] and I", but then I had two years of Catholic school, which (in my case) meant two years of diagramming sentences and learning about direct objects, etc.
This really isn't the most important thing. I don't personally care very much, but I try to get it right when I write and talk, and I have a very tiny eye twitch when I see it wrong; not a big eye twitch, just a small one.
Context so you know exactly what level of language asshole pedant I am:
- Almost no eye twitch: It's time to lay down for the night
- Small eye twitch: It was a phone call for Jenny and I
- Medium eye twitch: This is how it looks like (but also I smile and think this one is cute, for some reason)
- Big eye twitch: I will never step foot in that house again
- Gigantic eye twitch and someone in the house has to talk me down from writing a 500-word reply-rant: This is based off of...
@guyjantic
This is how it looks like based off of jenny and me never stepping foot in that house to lay down at night. -
@guyjantic
This is how it looks like based off of jenny and me never stepping foot in that house to lay down at night.@FritzAdalis How to make both of my eyes twitch uncontrollably while also having a slight smile at one point.
