When it comes to favorite grammar mistakes, there are few more popular, and few less often made, than the mistake with the pronouns \u2018I\u2019 and \u2018me\u2019. Let\u2019s have a look at some typical sentences with a mistake of this nature, and talk about why, in fact, those sentences are wrong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Me and Jane went to the cinema.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
This is the most frequently made mistake when it comes to the pronouns \u2018I\u2019 and \u2018me\u2019, and in terms of spoken English, it has become a mistake that is so commonplace that it has almost become acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Except it isn\u2019t acceptable, and neither should it ever be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A great tip to follow when looking at how to use the pronouns \u2018I\u2019 and \u2018me\u2019 is to apply the pronouns individually to any particular sentence. This then makes the mistake that much more apparent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Me went to the cinema.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
It sounds awful, doesn\u2019t it? In fact, it sounds like a sentence Tarzan would say. \u201cMe Tarzan, you Jane!\u201d And Tarzan grew up in the jungle with animals as his family. He didn\u2019t go to school one day in his life!<\/p>\n\n\n\n \n\n\n\n
The reason this sentence sounds so ridiculous is that \u2018me\u2019 is an object pronoun. \u2018I\u2019 is the equivalent subject pronoun, and in this particular example sentence, the word clearly represents the subject of the sentence or the doer of the action. So, the correct sentence should be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018I went to the cinema.\u2019<\/p><\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
So, returning to the original sentence, the correct version should be:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Jane and I went to the cinema.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Note that \u2018I\u2019 is used as the second subject pronoun. Although not technically wrong, the sound of \u2018I and Jane\u2019, or indeed whatever the other subject is, is clumsy in the extreme, and so grammatical habit dictates that \u2018I\u2019 become the last listed subject pronoun if there is more than one. It would be the same if other pronouns are used with it. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018You and I went to the cinema.\u2019 Not\u2026<\/p>
\u2018I and you went to the cinema.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
And it\u2019s the same if there are three or more subjects or subject pronouns:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Jane, Tom and I went to the cinema.\u2019 Or\u2026<\/p>
\u2018She, he and I went to the cinema.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
Let\u2019s look at some more example sentences that include this mistake.<\/p><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018Neither you nor me wanted to do it.\u2019 \u2018You and I\u2026\u2019<\/p>
\u2018She asked him and I if we could do it.\u2019<\/p>
\u2018She doesn\u2019t like you or I.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
The final two examples above make the exact same mistake, but with the object pronoun. \u2018Me\u2019 is the object, not \u2018I\u2019. Of course, removing the other object \u2018you\u2019 would make this really obvious. For example:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u2018She asked I if we could do it.\u2019<\/p>
\u2018She doesn\u2019t like I.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n
It just sounds ridiculous, doesn\u2019t it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It\u2019s a simple mistake, but often the simplest mistakes are the easiest to make. So, when it comes to using \u2018I\u2019 and \u2018me\u2019, just use them individually in the sentence (without any other subjects or objects) and you will quickly see which makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When it comes to favorite grammar mistakes, there are few more popular, and few less often made, than the mistake with the pronouns \u2018I\u2019 and \u2018me\u2019. Let\u2019s have a look at some typical sentences with a mistake of this nature, and talk about why, in fact, those sentences are wrong. \u2018Me and Jane went to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[15,503,530,534,581,531],"class_list":["post-1420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-grammar","tag-grammar","tag-grammar-checking","tag-grammar-errors","tag-grammar-mistakes","tag-grammar-rules","tag-grammatical-errors"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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