"Me" or "I"
Feb 16, 2022 07:35:30 #
This one annoys me. Some people think they will appear intelligent if the avoid using the word "me." Instead, they use "I" where it doesn't belong. The link below explains the usage, but I have a very simple way to decide which one to use: leave the other person out of the sentence and see what word should go there. "They gave an award to Bill and I." You hear that type of thing all the time. Let's try it without "Bill." "They gave the award to I." That doesn't sound very good, does it?
https://www.wordgenius.com/you-and-i-or-me-and-you/Xr0yWBPAJQAG8w-p?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1450831195
https://www.wordgenius.com/you-and-i-or-me-and-you/Xr0yWBPAJQAG8w-p?utm_source=blog&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1450831195
Feb 16, 2022 07:37:57 #
That is the way I taught my students to determine the correct word.
Feb 16, 2022 07:53:48 #
dalematt wrote:
That is the way I taught my students to determine the correct word.
I think I first heard that in grammar school - an outdated institution. Now it's elementary, moving on to middle and then high. It should have been "lower."
Feb 16, 2022 07:53:54 #
Feb 16, 2022 07:53:56 #
Feb 16, 2022 07:56:09 #
Feb 16, 2022 08:02:56 #
Feb 16, 2022 08:07:32 #
School doesn't teach anymore. It indoctrinates and social engineers. This is one grain in the vast sandy beach of things our generation knows and of which the last two generations are woefully ignorant.
Feb 16, 2022 08:07:55 #
jerryc41 wrote:
This one annoys me. Some people think they will a... (show quote)
FINALLY!! Someone (Jerryc41) gets annoyed by the same things that annoy me. It's vs its is another one. It's easy to use the correct version in its place! It's means "it is." With that translation, you should never go wrong. Further, I vs. me; she vs. her--these are just as basic. "I gave she a bath." Really?
Feb 16, 2022 08:15:33 #
I would so like to comment, but better judgement prohibits me from doing so. 
Feb 16, 2022 08:16:50 #
As a broadcaster for 50 years, that drives me nuts. And you hear it from most everybody! But...what does that have to do with photography?
Tom
Tom
Feb 16, 2022 08:19:46 #
LDB415 wrote:
School doesn't teach anymore. It indoctrinates and social engineers. This is one grain in the vast sandy beach of things our generation knows and of which the last two generations are woefully ignorant.
You hit the nail on the head! That is the best description of what school is all about that I have seen. And sadly, the higher one goes in the journey through education, the indoctrination and social engineering just intensifies.
Feb 16, 2022 08:30:13 #
It's one of my pet peeves. What I can't understand is that the misuse creeps into places where people are working from scripts. One would expect writers to know better!!!!!
Feb 16, 2022 08:32:33 #
Everyone should have taken Latin in high school. You finish with excellent grammar skills and then don't use the nominative case where the objective case is correct. My wife yells at me when I correct people which I shouldn't do but it bugs the c.. out of me. I had an employee with a masters Degree in engineering who would say, "me and DJ are going to the movie".
Feb 16, 2022 08:38:17 #
jaymatt wrote:
I would so like to comment, but better judgement prohibits me from doing so.
Yea, you might wind up using up one of your "aw-shit"s here.
(I have only one left.)
If you want to reply, then register here. Registration is free and your account is created instantly, so you can post right away.