Why is it so hard for people to know when to use “I” and “me” in a sentence?
I think it is easy. It is easy for me. Subject vs. object.
I blame Bryan Adams, Lady Gaga, and, yes, even Stevie Wonder.
People hear songs with pronouns used incorrectly and must think, “Well, if Stevie does it, it must be right.”
Here we are on earth together,
It’s you and I. — Stevie Wonder, “You and I”Yeah something about
Baby you and I. — Lady Gaga, “You and I”She says her love for me could never die
But that’d change if she ever found out about you and I. — Bryan Adams, “Run to You”
In all of these cases, the proper pronoun is “me.” The indicator for the last two is the word “about.” That word is a preposition. The pronouns are objects of that prepositional phrase.
An easy way to tell which word to use is to take out “you and.” If you do that, the Lady and Dudes just sound silly:
- “It’s I”
- “Something about I”
- “Found out about I”
Don’t be afraid of “me.”
Observe and report 
YES. This drives me insane.
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This is just one of the grammar areas where we are kindred spirits. Didn’t we both stop reading the same blog because of this?
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I could forgive–MAYBE–if the rhyme called for it. That’s at least vaguely Bard-like. But that’s not even the case with the first two. 😦
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“It’s I”, sounds wrong, but it equates “it” and “I”, so strictly speaking, isn’t it correct usage?
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Well, strictly speaking, it would be correct to say “It is I” if that’s the only thing you are saying. But it’s weird in Stevie’s verse to say that. And grammar gurus such as Patricia O-Connor (“Woe is I”) report that “It’s me” is more accepted.
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