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To: IronJack

The one the always annoys me is the use of "he and I" when "him and me" should be used. "He and I" are the lazy default. As in, "Give some of that cake to he and I."


10 posted on 02/24/2007 10:53:17 AM PST by seowulf
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One grammatical error that's been grating on me in recent times is the use of the word "less" when the word "fewer" is the correct choice.


15 posted on 02/24/2007 11:24:02 AM PST by P H Lewis (One of the fundamentals of democracy is knowing where to place your machine gun. - Foggy)
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To: seowulf
"He and I" are the lazy default. As in, "Give some of that cake to he and I."

Many people -- media people, notably -- who substitute the nominative case for the objective do so in an attempt to sound grammatically knowledgeable, I think. They're just not aware of constructions like direct and indirect objects, objects of prepositions (your example), and subjects of infinitive phrases ("We asked him to be our captain").

20 posted on 02/24/2007 11:42:54 AM PST by rhema ("Break the conventions; keep the commandments." -- G. K. Chesterton)
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To: seowulf
That's definitely my pet peeve.
110 posted on 02/24/2007 1:11:48 PM PST by keats5 (tolerance of intolerant people is cultural suicide)
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