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Not to be nitpicky, but rather to help: You are using 'me' and 'I' backwards. It's really distracting and made it difficult to get through the beginning of th
by tankbot 13y ago
Not to be nitpicky, but rather to help: You are using 'me' and 'I' backwards. It's really distracting and made it difficult to get through the beginning of the post to the actual story.
The rules are simple: Take Carl out of the sentence. Would you say "Me made myself available"? No. Then why "Carl and me made ourselves available"?
Would you say "score extra points with I"? No. Then why "score extra points with Carl and I"?
If you are in the subject of the sentence, then use I: "Carl and I went to the movies."
If you are in the predicate, or are the object of an action, use me: "The students handed their completed tests to Carl and me."
- ripter 13y agoThank you! I was hoping that I wasn't the only one bothered by this.
- ajross 13y agoAmusingly, exactly this characteristic -- being "really distracted" by things like grammar errors, or in general annoyed by other people for minor/nonessential reasons -- would get you dinged like crazy on the test being discussed. It marks you as a non-conformist and "hard to work with".
- tankbot 13y agoHah! Well, usually I can get past things like a lack of apostrophe or incorrect use of there/their/they're, I wouldn't consider myself a "Grammar Nazi". But for some reason this one causes me to lose my place when reading. I kept having to go back and find where I was in the paragraph and re-read the sentence to be sure of who is involved and what they were doing.