Me
Jennifer Lindsay
All through the day, I me mine, I me mine, I me mine', the Beatles' song goes. In English, we have four forms for the first person singular (add 'my' to the litany above) but they are all cases of the same word 'I'a ghost of Old English where all nouns, and not just pronouns, had cases. The choice of 'I' or 'me' is fairly straightforward ('I' for subject and after the verb 'to be'), although many English speakers nowadays muddle up 'I' and 'me' and one often hears things like, 'she asked my daughter and I to go', or 'between you and I', when it should be 'me'.
June 30, 2015
Jennifer Lindsay
All through the day, I me mine, I me mine, I me mine', the Beatles' song goes. In English, we have four forms for the first person singular (add 'my' to the litany above) but they are all cases of the same word 'I'a ghost of Old English where all nouns, and not just pronouns, had cases. The choice of 'I' or 'me' is fairly straightforward ('I' for subject and after the verb 'to be'), although many English speakers nowadays muddle up 'I' and 'me' and
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