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When to use “I” and when to use “me.”
January 29, 2019, 08:37 AM
EponymWhen to use “I” and when to use “me.”
quote:
Originally posted by sigcrazy7:
But... but... using “I” as an object pronoun makes me sound all educated. It’s true. I hear it used that way on CNN!! I gives me gravitas!.
No one knows it better than I.
January 29, 2019, 09:17 AM
P250UA5quote:
Originally posted by Skins2881:
I was always told just remove the other person and that solves it.
The drill sergeant made Joe and I do pushups.
If you still get it wrong after that, you're beyond help.
Bingo,
This is how me was taught it, too.
The Enemy's gate is down. January 29, 2019, 09:27 AM
rsboloCan't I just LIE here and not think about grammar? I'll just LAY around and do nothing.
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January 29, 2019, 09:27 AM
striker1I'm glad I seen this thread. I would of never known.
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January 29, 2019, 09:30 AM
jhe888Sigfruend, you assume people know the difference between a subject and an object in a sentence.
But the shortcut can help even those people.
The fish is mute, expressionless. The fish doesn't think because the fish knows everything. January 29, 2019, 09:59 AM
RichardCOur brains is hurts now.
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January 29, 2019, 05:49 PM
sigfreundquote:
Originally posted by jhe888:
Sigfruend, you assume people know the difference between a subject and an object in a sentence.
Therefore the shortcut and examples.
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“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
— Plato January 29, 2019, 06:15 PM
V-Tailquote:
Originally posted by arfmel:
Next please do one on “bring” and “take”. Thank you.
Bring it to me.
Take it away.
הרחפת שלי מלאה בצלופחים January 29, 2019, 06:32 PM
MuddflapAfter I seen the original post, I sat down and read threw it. I thought it was good so I called my wife in to read it to. She said it was so good, sigfreund ought to write a book and sale it. Than he could make a lot of money.
January 29, 2019, 10:41 PM
sigcrazy7quote:
Originally posted by Muddflap:
sigfreund ought to write a book and sale it
Dood, its
aught too rite a book”
Geez, get sum scoolin, pleaze.
Demand not that events should happen as you wish; but wish them to happen as they do happen, and you will go on well. -Epictetus January 30, 2019, 02:32 PM
wishfull thinkerGrammar Nazis, oh woe is I
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