Is it possible to use "me" instead of "I"? For example, "John and me went to town". it's common in my english, i use it every day. there is a prescriptive rule against it, on the shaky grounds that if you removed 'John and', all that is

'is', every time. 'are' sounds odd, if not ungrammatical, to me. i would also write 'is'. Selvakumar wrote: While my friend strongly feels that it should be "is" in the following sentence, I feel, grammar demands that it ought to be

me, well, i disagree.

i can't see me interpreting it that way. another interpretation: my reason for buying it was not that it was expensive (although it was), but some other reason.

Anonymous wrote: At no time is the h dropped. you cant've stayed in many otels if you've never eard h-dropping.

thanks for the link, LanguagLover. it's not working for me just now, but i'll try again later.

Philip wrote: I think of the beautiful Elizabethan language in the prayer "we have erred and strayed like lost sheep": does this mean that the errant sinner has no chance because he is likely to repeat his sins, even worse that he doesn't

(1) She doesn't drink or smoke. (2) She doesn't drink and smoke. they mean different things. the first simply means that she does not smoke and she does not drink. the second means that she does not smoke while she is drinking, that is,

1- She doesn't drink or smoke. = she does not drink and she does not smoke 2- She doesn't drink and smoke. = she does not drink and smoke at the same time = she does not smoke when she is drinking

i once heard someone rebelling against consumerism, saying that 'xmas' takes Christ out of christmas. also http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=xmas