‘Project Smart
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Shaping Young Minds
Common Mistakes in use of English-Lesson 54
I or Me
"I" is a subjective pronoun and "me" is an
objective pronoun:
§
"I am a teacher."
§
"She gave me the
book."
But what about when
you want to use two pronouns, one is the first person, either as the subject or
the object in the same sentence? People often get confused between whether to
use "he and I," "I and he," "he and me"... Let's say I want to communicate two ideas:
1. "I went to the theater."
2. "Prem went to the theatre."
2. "Prem went to the theatre."
1. "She called me on
Sunday."
2. "She called Rajesh on Sunday."
2. "She called Rajesh on Sunday."
But I don’t want to say these with two sentences, rather, one
only:
§
"Prem and I went
to the theatre."
§
"She called
Rajesh and me on Sunday." (Or me and Rajesh)
So how to know whether to use "I" or "me" in
these sentences? "I" is the subject and in the second sentence,
"me" is used because it is the object. If not sure, you can always do
a simple test. Break the sentence back down into two sentences, and if it makes
sense, then that's the pronoun to use
§
Prem went to the
theatre. Ok "Me"
went to the theatre. NO!
§
I went to the theater.
Ok!
Or
§
She called Rajesh on
Sunday. Ok She called
"I" on Sunday. NO!
§
She called me on
Sunday. Ok!
This works with all pronouns.
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Subject pronouns
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I
|
you
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he
|
she
|
It
|
you
|
we
|
they
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Object pronouns
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me
|
you
|
him
|
her
|
It
|
you
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us
|
them
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