Easy grammar tips!
May 13th, 2010
Being a citizen of the internet for the last 15 years or so has meant loosening my grammar standards. It’s really just a matter of desensitizing myself, so that I’m not offended every time I see “you’re browser”, etc. (I’m not a browser, but geese are!)
Today, though, bad grammar has been getting to me. I’d like to offer a few tips on the difference between “I” and “me”.
“I” is a subject as in “I hit you” and “me” is an object, as in “You hit me“. The rules still apply when there are multiple subjects or multiple objects, as in “Jane and I hit you” or “You hit Jane and me“. If you’re not sure which to use, try the sentence out with just one subject or just one object. For example, since this sounds right: “If you have questions, come find me“, you know that this version is right too: “If you have questions, come find Jane or Jimbo or me“. You wouldn’t say “I” there would you? No.
Okay, we can stop hitting each other now.
September 21st, 2011 at 4:25 pm
it’s irksome that “Jane and I hit you” is correct, while “I and Jane hit you” seems weirder than “Me and Jane hit you”, yet “Me hit you” is in Tarzan’s dialect. Just sayin’