To: bruinbirdman
Using the pronoun “I” where “me” is appropriate.
“He sent an email to Joe and I”. It should read “... to Joe and me.”
43 posted on
05/29/2007 3:29:13 AM PDT by
gitmo
(From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.)
To: gitmo
Using the pronoun “I” where “me” is appropriate.That's one that grate on me. When we're very young, we might say, "It's me;" or "Me and him did ..." We're taught that the proper way is "It's I;" or "He and I ..." Somehow, that morphs into the misconception that the nominative case is to be used in all situations. Even people supposedly educated in language, such as news anchors, will do this.
To: gitmo
But they think it makes them sound SOOOOOOOOOOO
intelligent.
99 posted on
05/29/2007 4:57:25 AM PDT by
WKB
(It's hard to tell who's more afraid of Fred Thompson; The Dims or the rudibots.)
To: gitmo
Oh yeah; that is a big one for me. I can't stand it. But, check this out:
Irregardless of what you think......THERE IS NO SUCH WORD AS "irregardless". If there was such a word, it would mean the same a "regardless".
393 posted on
05/29/2007 2:11:00 PM PDT by
no dems
( Dear God, how much longer are you going to let Ted Kennedy and Robert Byrd live?)
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