“Me and my friends went to local art festival yesterday. It was such an amazing experience for my friends and I.”
What do you think about the two sentences mentioned above? Are they grammatically correct? Although they don’t sound too weird, they are incorrect.
Both ‘I’ and ‘me’ are first person singular pronouns. It means both of them are used when a person refers to himself or herself.
What’s the difference, then?
- ‘I’ is the subject pronoun. It’s used for the one doing the verb.
- Meanwhile, ‘me’ is the object pronoun. It’s used as an object of the action of the verb.
Let’s try to use them in a sentence:
- “I wanted to go to business school but my mom asked me to go to medical school instead.”
It sounds too easy, doesn’t it? However, it gets a bit trickier when another subject/object is added to the context.
Example:
- “You and I should get dinner tonight.”
- “That is a bad idea for you and me.”
The easiest way to determine the right form of pronoun is to remove the other subject/object and leave the ‘I/me’ intact.
Example:
- “I should get dinner tonight.” (correct)
- “That is a bad idea for me.” (correct)
Practice
Let’s have a little bit of practice now, shall we?
Compiled and written by @bintilvice for @EnglishTips4U on Friday, September 9, 2016
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