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To: k2blader
Effect/Affect and the use of "I" instead of "me"
"Bring a drink for your sister and I" *shudder*
50 posted on 04/11/2003 12:54:07 PM PDT by grobdriver
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To: grobdriver
I suspect some folks use "I" as the default because they think it sounds more "classy"?

e.g. "Dahling, the chandelier will ride in the limo with Wadsworth and I."

60 posted on 04/11/2003 1:17:36 PM PDT by k2blader ("Mercy, detached from Justice, grows unmerciful." - C. S. Lewis)
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To: grobdriver
I actually heard a teacher say, "I should have went."
61 posted on 04/11/2003 1:18:56 PM PDT by ladylib
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