Nathan Exposed » Wednesday Words: Me and I

Good morning class!

Today’s topic is the misuse of “me” and “I”. Sometimes even the smartest English majors make the mistake, and it’s easy to do. I have trouble with it myself.

One trick I learned was removing part of the sentence. Let’s say we’re going to a movie.

Do I say “You and me should go to a movie” or “You and I should go to a movie”?

Remove the “You and”… now the choices are “Me should go to a movie” or “I should go to a movie”. Obviously only one of those makes sense, so the correct answer is “I”. Anytime a sentence involves two people, make it involve only you and you should get the answer.

What about “This is the story of you and I” or “This is the story of you and me”? Which is correct?

Change the sentence to “This is the story of I” or “This is the story of me”. The answer is easier to pinpoint. It should be “This is the story of you and me”.

Keep this trick in mind and using “me” or “I” becomes much more simple! That’s this week’s edition.

Wed, Aug 30, 2006 @ 7:08 am | Filed in Wednesday Words | Permalink

7 Comments

You wanna know what drives ME up a wall with this?

“Between you and I”
Ummm, no. I don’t care how learned you want to sound or how affectatious you want to appear, but “between you and I” is poor English. If you want to sound proper and bourgeois, frickin’ speak proper English… It’s “between you and ME,” asshole!

Posted by Mr. Secret on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 @ 10:47 am

Awww… somebody needs a hug.

Posted by Nathan on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 @ 10:49 am

nathan that mafukkin CBT cant stand shit like dis either!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! speak american or dont speak at all!!!!!!!!

yo but my dude - i already lost your email address since i do shit like that - hit me up if you still got mine - dont wanna post it here for spam and groupies and shit

and my dude - where the CBT story????? we pushing this shit (ha ha!) but it going to take a while for tha rest of the world to catch up on this fuck jamie kennedy thing - we need the CBT Fam to put it out there - shit we already getting nice traffic from nathanexposed - imagine with the story - you can be a soldier in this war to EXPOSE THAT FUCKER - hahahaha

aiight holla back family

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oral b

CBT (Cock Brothers Team)
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http://www.myspace.com/cockbrothersteam

CHEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!

Posted by cockbrothersteam on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 @ 2:12 pm

Ya know baby, that one is gonna save my little white tushy! Then again, grammer and I never really got along really well to begin with. That’s why I wanna speak 40’s hipster lingo baby!

Posted by Shadowmichael on Wed, Aug 30, 2006 @ 10:10 pm

That’s a good one. I also laugh scornfully at people who try and make themselves important by using reflexive pronouns. “If I can be of any further assistance please contact myself”. Contacting yourself sounds vaguely dirty!

Posted by Tom on Thu, Aug 31, 2006 @ 5:54 am

Chris teaches English, so I get English/grammar/punctuation lessons ALL THE TIME. I just got the ‘you & I’ or ‘you & me’ or ‘you and who-the-fuck-ever’ lesson last week. Now, I really need him to explain all the freakin’ rules regarding comma usage again.

Posted by Steve on Thu, Aug 31, 2006 @ 6:13 am

You’re so smart Nate…

Posted by john on Thu, Aug 31, 2006 @ 11:55 pm