tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Mar 25 20:47:09 2002
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Re: KLBC: {-be'}
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- Subject: Re: KLBC: {-be'}
- Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2002 20:46:56 EST
qe'San wrote:
>Are you saying this is wrong in English? Admitedly I would probably just
>have used "me" in place of "I". But then I always thought I was wrong.. I'm
>sure we were taught in school that "John and me"/"me and John" was incorrect
>and that, "John and I" was correct. I was taught that to have said "me and
>John" was rude.
"I" is a subject pronoun. "Me" is an object pronoun. To figure out which is
right, take out the "John":
"I went to the park."
"John and I went to the park."
You know *"John and me went to the park" can't be right because *"Me went to
the park" can't be right. Adding more subjects to the sentence doesn't
change the pronoun. Likewise:
"He saw me."
"He saw John and me."
You know *"He saw John and I" can't be right because *"He saw I" can't be
right.
Your teacher probably confused you by telling you not to say *"Me and John
went to the park," as most people sometimes do in casual conversation. It is
technically wrong. "Me and John" is only correct as the object of a sentence
(usually going after the verb in English).
Just to clear everything up, *"between you and I" is also, indeed, incorrect.
It's "between you and me".
tlhoy' Qatlh DIvI' Hol. 'oH ghojlaHmo' vay' jIyay'.
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