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Anonymous, 1 yr 94 days ago
There is a simple rule Mrs. Habeck taught us back in 1958.  The easiest way to tell whether "and I" or "and me" is correct, is to drop the other name and the word and and see if it sounds correct.  For example, "Last week Frank and me went fishing"  Drop "Frank and" from the sentence and you get "Last week me went fishing" which is obviously wrong.  So Frank and I would be correct.  Another example, " Why didn't she tell Joyce and I about it?" would be "Why didn't she tell I about it?".  Pretty simple, yes?
MrPedantic  +  556308 Mon, 18 Aug 08 11:14 PM

Thank you, Anon.

<thumbs up>

(I shall always think of this as Mrs Habeck's rule from now on.)

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Anonymous, 212 days ago
Wrong-o! In cases like this, it's "ME." Me, me, me. M-E. If you're confused, take the other person (or people) out of the sentence. It doesn't make sense to say "Say hello from I." This is one of the biggest grammar mistakes!!
MrPedantic  +  700157 Wed, 22 Apr 09 11:33 PM
Thank you very much, Anon.

 

(This thread will now close for the summer, as it seems to have reached the stage where it might be troublesome for people to read the intervening 7 pages, before replying to the original question.)

 

Best wishes,

 

MrP

 
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