[erkelly]

My 7th grade English teacher would definitely flunk your 7th grade English teacher.

Here is a simple way to determine the correct use of I or me. Take out the other person and use “I” or “me” as a stand alone.

Thus, would you say:

“I try to ...” or “Me try to ...” ?

As you can see, in this instance, “I” is correct, therefore “the speaker and I try to ...” is grammatically correct, not “the speaker and me...”.

[Scrambler Bob]

“What you’ve seen the speaker and I try to do and, ...”

= = =

Nope.

‘the speaker and I’ are the object of ‘have seen’, so we need the object pronoun ‘me’ and not subject pronoun ‘I’.

Using your test: ‘What you’ve seen I try to do’ does not fly.

So my 7th grade teacher has your 7th grade teacher in a headlock.