It’s been a while since I’ve tackled a grammar issue, so here is a big one: when to use “I” and “me.”
I had to stop reading one friend’s blog because she misused “I” so many times.
Here’s the deal: “I” is a subject pronoun and “me” is an object pronoun. So, “You and I should go Christmas shopping” because “you and I” are subjects doing something. And, “Santa hit on you and me” because Santa is doing something to us.
It is not OK, ever, to say “Santa gave his number to you and I.”
Need a hint? Take out the other pronoun and see if it works. “Santa gave his number to I” is not correct.
And it is always “between you and me,” no matter what you hear in songs such as Jessica Simpson’s “Between you and I” — not that you are really listening to that, of course.
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