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600 | 10,643 | 76823_0 | I was taught at school that the following expression is not grammatically correct: > Who is there? It's me. The correct one is: > Who is there? It's I. Can you let me know which one is accurate? Here is a good explanation about both forms. |
601 | 96,718 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > When do I use “I” instead of “me?” Which is correct? > The photo shows my kids and me at the party. > > The photo shows my kids and I at the party Another one: Which is correct? > This is Jean and I at the swimming pool. > > This is Jean and me at the swimming pool. |
602 | 84,286 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > I can run faster than **_**. (1) him (2) he? I am confused about the usage of the words 'we' and 'us'. I am using a Princeton Review 11 SAT tests 2011 edition, practice test 7, section 6, number 29 (just in case anyone actually had that book). This question was a "find the incorrect word or phrase in the following section" question. For those of you who don't know, this kind of question gives you a sentence. Four different phrases or words are underlined in that sentence and labeled A, B, C, and D respectively. The objective is to find the phrase that is incorrectly used. The particular question I need help with says: > As finalists, Mark and I were both shocked by the decision; it seemed to us > that the winner of the contest was far less talented than we. > > A: both shocked > B: it seemed > C: far less > D: we > E: No error So of course, everything seemed right till I got to that last word. My thinking was to use 'us' instead of 'we'. However, the answer in the back of the book says the answer is: > E. There is no error in the sentence as written. The _we_ in (D) may sound > strange, but the subject pronoun is correct here. Can someone please explain this to me? Why am I wrong in saying that the word _us_ should have been used instead? |
603 | 33,689 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me"? Consider this conversation: > "Hey, we've been seeing each other for a couple of months" > > "Did you really expect to get married two weeks? I am not easy like other > girls." > > "It's not about other girls. It's about **me and you"** Is _me and you_ correct and why? |
604 | 157,771 | 76823_0 | Choose the correct pronoun to complete the sentence. > No other boy in our neighborhood runs as fast as (he, him). Choose the correct pronoun to complete the sentence. > Who could make spaghetti better than (she, her)? Choose the correct pronoun to complete the sentence. > The book about the history of pencils was more interesting to you than to > (he, him). |
605 | 110,601 | 76823_0 | I had a debate with my friend about this topic because he had a photo captioned: > Seth and I playing lion king and I said it should be > Seth and me playing lion king Which is correct? |
606 | 38,635 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicates:** > When do I use "I" instead of "me?" > Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me"? Which of the following sentences is more acceptable? > "This is just between you and I." or > "This is just between you and me." I have come across both of these sentences in movies and I'm not sure which one is more acceptable. Can someone help me? |
607 | 313 | 76823_0 | From some comments in the answers for common English usage mistakes, there's confusion around the usage of I vs. me: While the sentence, "the other attendees are myself and Steve," is agreed to be incorrect, there's confusion about whether the correct form is "the other attendees are me and Steve" or "the other attendees are Steve and I." (I've always used the heuristic of removing the other people from the sentence, so I always thought "the other attendee is me" would be correct, instead of "the other attendee is I." Is this true, or am I using a flawed heuristic?) |
608 | 95,821 | 76823_0 | > **Duplicate of:** > John, Valencia, and I (or me)? > “My friends and I” vs. “My friends and me” vs. “Me and my friends” > Is naming the first person last proper grammar or just proper manners? > And others. Which statement is correct when tagging a picture of yourself and a friend? "Barbara and I" or "Me and Barbara? |
609 | 7,611 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > “My friends and I” vs. “My friends and me” vs. “Me and my friends” > Is naming the first person last proper grammar or just proper manners? "Julio and I went to the schoolyard." is a valid sentence. How about "I and Julio went to the schoolyard."? It's impolite (putting yourself first) and awkward, but is it grammatically incorrect? [I realize the original lyric "see me and Julio..." is a grammatically correct imperative sentence] |
610 | 125,477 | 76823_0 | Caption over picture of Owen and his dad..."Owen and I" is this correct grammatically ? |
611 | 103,699 | 76823_0 | Which one is correct here and why? > * He is **taller than me**. > * He is **taller than I**. > |
612 | 120,410 | 76823_0 | I have a few questions on terminology, first, actually, as having the right terminology may have enabled me to answer this question on my own. * What is the terminology for such constructs, "as [adjective] as [noun]"? (Wiktionary seems to label them **adjective-based similes** --is that correct?) * Is the [noun] considered a _subject_ , a _direct object_ , or some other kind of an object? I feel that [noun] was actually meant to be a complete sentence on its own, _e.g._ "She is as wonderful as they [are wonderful]," but for convenience we drop repetitive words--is that an accurate view? If so, then, are sentences like "She's as tall as me" actually ungrammatical? Yet, it seems awkward to say, "She's as tall as I." Is that purely due to a shift in speaking norms? |
613 | 17,636 | 76823_0 | Which is the correct usage of the third person, plural pronoun? > It is they who lied. > It is them who lied. |
614 | 3,447 | 76823_0 | Consider the sentence "I can run faster than 15 miles per hour." Its meaning is clear and to my eyes obviously grammatically correct. Now let me present some variations that have given me trouble for a long time. * I am faster than 15 miles per hour. – To me this is clearly incorrect. Directly comparing _me_ to a speed doesn't seem right. We need to compare _my speed_ to a speed, or me to _another person_. * I can run faster than him. – Compared to the base sentence, there is a distinct shift in meaning of the comparison. While before I named a speed faster than which I can run, now I am naming a person. It doesn't seem quite right. I realize the parts of speech can change, but my initial objection is that "him" is not a speed. * I can run faster than he. – This seems most correct to me, but still somehow feels objectionable. Is this in fact the correct way to say it? And if so, is it proper as is or need I say "... faster than he is" or even "... faster than he can run?" * I am faster than him. – With "am" instead of "can run" it now seems slightly more correct. But is it? * I am faster than he. – I'm in doubt here. It doesn't seem wrong to me to say, "I am faster than he is" or even "I am faster than he is fast." (Though I suppose that is a given since I could hardly properly compare to some other category as in "I am faster than he is smart.") * My speed is faster than his. – Hmm. This seems more proper as "my speed is greater than his." So which of these constructions is correct and which is incorrect? Is there a general rule that I can follow? **UPDATE** The scholarly article Syntactic isomorphism and non-isomorphism under ellipsis may be of great interest to some readers! > Once we accept that the elided constituent and its antecedent can differ in > form, it becomes reasonable to ask how large this difference can be. The > answer in Rooth (1992), Fiengo and May (1994), Chung et al. (1995) and > subsequent work is that the wiggle room is actually quite small: the elided > constituent and its antecedent are allowed to differ only in the realization > of inflectional morphology. Other than that, both constituents have to be > syntactically and lexically isomorphic. |
615 | 146,257 | 76823_0 | Books like word power suggest "Ramu and I are going to theatre today" may be wrong. Does "Ramu and me are going to ..." a right structure. |
616 | 125,691 | 76823_0 | I’d like all of you to please consider the following sentence: > It must be **him with whom** you enjoy doing your assignments, not **me**. I have known that after 'to be' verb pronouns words take the subjective form. For example: > It is **he who** was absent yesterday. So, can I say that the first sentence is erroneous? Would it be correct to write > It must be **he with whom** you enjoy doing your assignments, not **I**. |
617 | 194,155 | 76823_0 | > **It is me** whom she loves > or > **It is I** whom she loves Because I know that "It is I" is grammatically correct. |
618 | 1,047 | 76823_0 | When the phrase is used as an object, why so many native speakers are saying "you and I" instead of "you and me"? I'm not a native speaker but I thought "you and me" is correct. Not sure if this falls into the same category, but "Just between you and me" sounds more natural than "Just between you and I". |
619 | 96,767 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > “My friends and I” vs. “My friends and me” vs. “Me and my friends” > Is naming the first person last proper grammar or just proper manners? > “Julio and I” vs “I and Julio” Today I made a post on facebook in which I copied conversation from somewhere else. To preface my post, I wrote: > A conversation between me and John: There were a number of comments on my use of pronouns, but the one I am most interested in was on the word order. One commentator said that the personal pronoun must always come last. I admit that I was raised to always use the personal pronoun last and simply did not type what I felt was correct, but I honestly don't know whether what I was raised with was correct. So, Should you always place the personal pronoun last in a list? If so, why? |
620 | 1,133 | 76823_0 | I've always been taught to put myself last when referring to myself in the same sentence as others but the usage of "me and..." seems to be everywhere these days. The misuse of the word "me" instead of "I" aside, is there some new rule I haven't heard of? Shouldn't we put ourselves last regardless of the "me"/"I" usage? Examples of "correct" usage: > My friends and I went for some ice cream. Did you see my friends and me at > the ice cream stand? Examples of "incorrect" usage: > Me and my friends went for some ice cream. Did you see me and my friends at > the ice cream stand? Note: I was also taught that the only person who could put themselves first was the queen. |
621 | 102,868 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > “My friends and I” vs. “My friends and me” vs. “Me and my friends” I'm not sure since sometimes people also say 'My partner and me' |
622 | 189,411 | 76823_0 | My Friend recently said in a picture caption, "Officer Smith & I"...but wouldn't it be "Officer Smith & Me", because if Officer Smith would be out of the picture wouldn't you point yourself out in a picture by saying "Me", not "I"? |
623 | 90,476 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > “My friends and I” vs. “My friends and me” vs. “Me and my friends” Somebody taught me a rule of thumb how to discern if I should use "I" or "Me" when adding self to the end of a list of people in a sentence: Ignore the list, strip the rest and treat it only as if it was the singular "me", choose one that matches. Still, often I see things like _John and me went to the park_. Is this just a common error or are there some specific rules where _I_ will be replaced by _me_ if appearing on a list? |
624 | 26,728 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > I can run faster than **_**. (1) him (2) he? Is it correct to say, "She's older than me" or "She's older than I?" I almost always hear people say the former (me). If I remember correctly my grade school grammar, though, the test to apply is to say the sentence out in full: "She's older than I (am old)." In that case, the subject form I seems to be correct. I've often wondered and would appreciate a definitive answer. |
625 | 71,248 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > I can run faster than **_**. (1) him (2) he? Which is grammatically correct? > My friends seem to be having more fun than _I, Me, Myself, and Them_ Also, > Good people are always ready to help those who are not as fortunate as > _Theirs, Them, They, Us_ |
626 | 16,511 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me"? I was surprised to hear "you and I," when I expected "you and me." Are the two expressions synonyms to each other? |
627 | 25,312 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicates:** > Should I Put Myself Last ("me and you" vs "you and me")? > When do I use "I" instead of "me?" > Who wants ice-cream? When identifying people in a photo—for instance, > John, Valencia, and (I or me). should I use ”I” or “me”? Which one is grammatically correct? |
628 | 143,363 | 76823_0 | When telling a story about myself from the past, I have found myself in an internal debate over whether the correct way to segue into the present is: > That was me twelve years ago. Or: > That was I twelve years ago. My instincts tell me the first is correct (object pronoun after a verb and it sounds better to my ears). But, I'm not sure if pronouns after linking verbs should be object pronouns. Which is correct? |
629 | 116,677 | 76823_0 | My question does not have to do with the correctness/incorrectness of 'neither do I'/'me neither', but with the presence of the 'yes' (or 'yeah', which is how it most often 'comes out' for me) at the beginning. If someone were to say: > I love chocolate. I'd naturally answer (orally) one of the two: > Yeah, so do I. / Yeah, me too. But if someone were to say: > I don't like driving. Would it be normal to answer: > Yeah, neither do I. / Yeah, me neither. |
630 | 43,413 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > Which one is correct to say: "It's me" or "It's I"? Which of these is correct? " _It's me_ " or " _It's I_ ". I hear these both colloquially but need the grammatically correct statement if one is preferable over the other. |
631 | 156,369 | 76823_0 | Is it proper grammar to write: > Please join my wife and I for coffee... Or is it > me and my wife Or > my wife and me |
632 | 45,751 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > When do I use "I" instead of "me?" Apparently I use 'Me and xxx' in conversation often enough that a foreign English speaker I work with has started using it as well. When he said it I automatically corrected him. ;) Clearly I've picked this up from somewhere. Does anyone know if it's a regional variation? I do recall a teacher having a go at someone over saying it when I was at school, but he Wasn't From Round Here... |
633 | 62,325 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me"? > "Me and my wife" or "my wife and me" Is this sentence correct "All I need is you and I " ?? since "All I need is I" seems not proper here whereas "All I need is you" does. |
634 | 29,339 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > Who wants ice-cream? > Which is correct to say: “It's me” or “It's I”? > “This is her” or “This is she” I'm reading a book and I found a sentence which made me have some doubts. The sentence is: > That was **him** on the phone. I wonder whether the sentence would be as grammatically correct as 'That was **he** on the phone'. The reason I wonder is because when you answer the phone, for example, you say "yes, this is he" (meaning something like 'Speaking'). So are both grammatically correct? How can I know whether I should use _he/him_ after verb _to be_? |
635 | 32,439 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicates:** > When do I use "I" instead of "me?" > Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me"? While reading an article from a certain newspaper this morning on grammar pet peeves, I noticed one that I had never heard of before, concerning the usage of "me" vs. "I." The examples were something like: "The pool amazed my friend and me"; and "My friend and I were amazed by the fireworks." I have never, ever heard of using " **__ and me," but the writer of this article believes that when using the passive, it should be "__** and me." Is this correct? |
636 | 118,881 | 76823_0 | I hear people saying, "He said it to my wife and I" when they would never say, "He said it to I." Why are people so inconsistent? |
637 | 59,618 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > When do I use "I" instead of "me?" A friend of mine asked me for advice about an e-mail he was writing. There was a sentence like this: > I and my partners we are interested in investing in your product. I figured it was wrong, so I suggested: > I and my partners are interested in investing in your product. This looks grammatical to me but sounds strange. Also, I have seen a lot of people writing this: > Me and my partners we are interested in investing in your product. which I believe is not grammatical. So, which one of the options above is correct? Also, what would be a better choice of words? |
638 | 131,863 | 76823_0 | why does this analysis say it is correct to say "me and Bill worked late" and say it is incorrect to say "Bill and I worked late"? |
639 | 138,478 | 76823_0 | When should I say, for instance, "Mary and me," and when should I say "Me and Mary?" Example: Which option should I use in the following sentence? > After drinking our tea and saying goodbye to Hank, [...] made out way back > to the hotel. |
640 | 194,591 | 76823_0 | I have a friend that says "I and John went to the store" instead of "John and I went to the store". Is this still correct? |
641 | 189,448 | 76823_0 | The use of me and I what it the secret to this struggle. When is it appropriate to use me and when to use I? |
642 | 4,032 | 76823_0 | Upon answering the telephone, the person calling asks if Joan is available. If Joan is the person who answered the phone, should she say "This is her" or "This is she"? |
643 | 2,234 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicates:** > Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me"? > When do I use "I" instead of "me?" Which one of the below sentences is correct? > John and me are working on it. or > John and I are working on it. |
644 | 185,352 | 76823_0 | Would it be "people like us", or "people like we?" For instance, When we arrived at the party we immediately noticed that there were many people like we/us! |
645 | 8,353 | 76823_0 | _He was almost as bad at English as me._ _He was almost as bad at English as I._ The first one sounds better as-is, but not when you change the second one to _He was almost as bad at English as I was._ Which is correct? |
646 | 36,834 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicates:** > Should I use a nominative or accusative pronoun when making comparisons > (e.g. "I run faster than ___ ")? > "Me" versus "I" I've been told that "This is he" or "This is she" is correct, while "This is him" or "This is her" is not. For example: > **Caller:** Hello, may I speak to Bobby Tables? > > **Bobby:** This is he. Likewise, "We are we" is correct, but "We are us" is not. On the other hand, you would say "I told him" or "I hate him" rather than "I told he" or "I hate he". Why are linking(?) verbs and action verbs different in this regard? |
647 | 137,872 | 76823_0 | Which is correct of the following two sentences, one of which contains 'I', the other 'me'. That is the point of the question. In all other respects the sentences are the same. Someone bigger than I will make that decison Someone bigger than me will make that decsion |
648 | 77,459 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > "Me and my wife" or "my wife and me" I keep seeing that it's just courtesy to put yourself last in a list of nouns. eg. "They went to the game with Sally and me" instead of "They went to the game with me and Sally". Is there an official rule somewhere that says this? All i'm finding is people just saying that's the case |
649 | 47,968 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > I can run faster than **_**. (1) him (2) he? Which is correct? > You know more about this than **me**. > > You know more about this than **I**. The second sounds unnatural, but I think it is correct because a trailing _know_ is implied. |
650 | 4,120 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > “My friends and I” vs. “My friends and me” vs. “Me and my friends” I cringe when someone does not follow the _rule_ of naming the first person last: > Who went to the party? > \- Me, Bobby, Sally, and Joe. This is surprisingly common in informal spoken American English. I admit have a strong cultural bias against this practice. My native language is Spanish and listeners in informal situations often reply with _el burro por delante_ ( _the donkey in front_ ) to correct the speaker. Another post (Which of these sentences use the correct grammar?) partially covers this topic but the answers do not conclude whether it is proper grammar or just proper manners. |
651 | 14,294 | 76823_0 | In high school we learned to say "than I" and "as I" because you could potentially add an "am" to the end of the sentence. Examples: "She is smarter than I." (Think: "...than I **am**.") "He is as tall as I." (Think "...as I **am**.") So analogously, shouldn't it be "like I" as well: "He is sincere, just like I." (Think: "... like I **am**.") But universally, it seems that we use "like me". Where does this reasoning break down? Is there history here? |
652 | 121,198 | 76823_0 | Overheard on an elevator today, > I didn't realize it was him. Corrected by the know-it-all, > He. "I didn't realize it was he." The know-it-all then went on a rant about how everybody is a dolt for not knowing that. I swear I have never heard this before in my life. Is the know-it-all correct? If so, why is "I didn't realize it was he," grammatically correct? What rule makes "him" incorrect here? |
653 | 154,869 | 76823_0 | In the sentence _'The winners of the contest were Morgan and I',_ is 'I' or 'me' correct? I think it should be 'I', because _'Morgan and I were the winners of the contest.'_ |
654 | 152,566 | 76823_0 | Is it correct to say "between you and **me** " or "between you and **I** "? I am not a native English speaker, so please bear with me. |
655 | 5,359 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me"? When I was in primary school, I was advised by my English teacher to use "you and I" instead of "you and me." I know some people out there still use "You and me." Can anyone explain why we should use "you and I" and what is wrong with "you and me"? |
656 | 48,397 | 76823_0 | Which is correct: _me and my wife_ or _my wife and me_? The sentence in which this is used is > Ms. Smith informed **me and my wife** that she was afraid of being accosted. |
657 | 144,486 | 76823_0 | A while ago I heard a preacher say during a speech the following personal anecdote: > When I arrived at the Atlanta airport, I saw a man with my name written on a > card approach me and say 'are you reverend G…?' And I said 'He is I'… _He is I?_ Is that correct? I guess if we apply the rule “when the pronoun is the subject of a verb” it might be technically correct, but even Shakespeare wrote “Oh, woe is me.…” not “woe is I.” I wonder if the preacher knocked at doors saying “it is I.” |
658 | 188,908 | 76823_0 | Does anyone know the correct word choice between "we" and "us", and explain the reason why? Thanks! |
659 | 36,337 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicates:** > Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me"? > When do I use "I" instead of "me?" Could you please explain more in an answer, so that **I and other developers** would use benefit. Could you please explain more in an answer, so that **me and other developers** would use benefit. Which one is correct? Why? |
660 | 68,490 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > When do I use "I" instead of "me?" > John, Valencia, and I (or me)? I found a photo of Sarah, Thomas, James and I? OR I found a photo of Sarah, Thomas, James and me? "I" subject pronoun, photo "object", "me" object pronoun - or not as the case may be? I believe it is "me" not "I" but can you provide why this is so in terms of sentence structure. Thank you |
661 | 5,552 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > Should I put myself last? I get this mixed up so often. Should I say: > Me and Rob are going swimming. or > I and Rob are going swimming. I know the latter sounds REALLY awkward and I'd probably never say it that way but > Rob and I are going swimming. sound perfectly fine (confusing because _Rob_ and _I_ aren't grammatically different here). In the original sentence both _I_ and _Rob_ are the subject, so why use the accusative _me_? Also why do we say: > She and Rob are going swimming. but not: > I and Rob are going swimming. ? |
662 | 121,469 | 76823_0 | Consider: > Jack told Jill and **I** to walk faster. instead of > Jack told Jill and **me** to walk faster. This “mistake” seems to be becoming more and more common, even among TV newscasters or commentators. Seems as if this is going to be a permanent change in English grammar, adding a complexity: > Jack saw me there. > > Jack saw Jill and I there. Is it? |
663 | 90,577 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > I can run faster than _____. (1) him (2) he? I was using this sentence with an ease until my teacher scolded that this is wrong. He said to use _I_ in place of _me_ as comparison is being done between two subjects. So _me_ is wrong according to him: > He is wiser than **me**. He said to use: > He is wiser than **I**. Which sounds more appropriate? |
664 | 100,946 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > “It is they who lied” or “it is them who lied?” Why does "most of..." take an object pronoun, such as _them_ , and not _they_? Do all prepositional constructs do this? |
665 | 192,024 | 76823_0 | Which of the two is more correct, when one wants to make sure whether he/she is a subject of the statement (ex. the sentence is addressed at two people, and one of those two people wants to make sure, whether the sentence is addressed at him/her). > You have beautiful eyes. > > Me? or > You have beautiful eyes. > > I? |
666 | 4,556 | 76823_0 | With the enthusiastic question of "Who wants ice-cream?", what is the more correct response? > 1. (Not) I. > 2. (Not) me. > Neither response is a sentence. The first response of "(not) I" sounds stuffy, like it should be followed with an indignant sniff. The second sounds like American idiom and acceptable for casual speech. What do you say? |
667 | 126,566 | 76823_0 | Which would it be--it is us, or it is we? "Who is the real culprit? It is us, the ignorant, apathetic people of America." Or, "Who is the real culprit? It is we, the ignorant, apathetic people of America." Or plural? "Who are the real culprits? They are us, the ignorant, apathetic people of America." (Sounds more like the name of a retail store--They R Us.) |
668 | 85,252 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > "My friends and I" vs. "My friends and me" vs. "Me and my friends" > Can “myself” stand for both “me” and “I” in “my mother and I/me”? What is correct? We are a family of four: my father, my mother, my brother and me. or We are a family of four: my father, my mother, my brother and I. or We are a family of four: my father, my mother, my brother and myself. |
669 | 17,083 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicates:** > I can run faster than **_**. (1) him (2) he? > “like I” or “like me”? Which of these is correct and why? I always assumed it followed the rule of "which would be correct if you inserted the verb", eg. Smarter than I am vs. Smarter than me am, in which case the former would obviously be correct. But thinking more about it, I'm not sure... |
670 | 38,593 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > I can run faster than **_**. (1) him (2) he? Which one is correct? > He is taller than I. He is taller than me. |
671 | 14,901 | 76823_0 | Would the phrase 'With me being one of them' be grammatically correct? Sounds a bit odd in my head and I triple-checked mentally but couldn't tell if it was correct or not. 'With I being one of them' doesn't sound correct either. Has to be 'me' or 'I'. Those two are the only first person pronouns... if I recall correctly. |
672 | 33,024 | 76823_0 | > **Duplicate of:** > Who wants ice-cream? What is the answer to the question: > Who came yesterday? Is it "I" or "Me"? |
673 | 162,229 | 76823_0 | This is kind of a basic question, but I would appreciate your input. If you're describing a photo of you and a friend, do you write: "My friend and I" or "My friend and me" I understand the usage of "I" as a subject and "me" as an object, but what about the above case where there's no verb? |
674 | 79,336 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > I can run faster than **_**. (1) him (2) he? What's the right was to say here? > He has more money than **she**. or > He has more money than **her**. or > He has more money than **she does**. |
675 | 53,390 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > Should I put myself last? > "Me and my wife" or "my wife and me" Having been raised with German as my first language, my parents took very much care that I would not mention myself fist: If I told them that I did something with my friends - "me, Bob and Andrew" - I was always corrected to say "Bob, Andrew and me" instead. Is there a similar rule or is it perceived to be similarily impolite to mention oneself first in the English language? |
676 | 161,977 | 76823_0 | If I am asked, who is going to the wedding? can I just say "I"? |
677 | 76,412 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > Should I say "not I" or "not me"? I got into a good argument with myself when a Lecturer asked: > "Who said that?" and I replied > "I." Actually, I didn't just want to stop there, but I felt there was no need to continue and that it was correct. However some argued that "Me" was the correct reply. Since the reply was not a sentence, it was difficult for me to conclude whether I should refer to an objective _Me_ or a subjective _I_. _So in short_ , I want to know whether there is any other clear parameters that defines when to use which and how? |
678 | 81,003 | 76823_0 | > **Possible Duplicate:** > Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me"? > Which one is correct to say: "It's me" or "It's I"? > "It is they who lied" or "it is them who lied?" Which one is grammatically correct: **It was me who called you.** , or **It was I who called you.**? Similarly, which one is correct among these two: **He and me were going to the forest** , or **He and I were going to the forest**? |
679 | 109,854 | 76823_0 | In Swedish there is a term called _självdistans_ , which would be directly translated to "self-distance", which means possessing a certain objectivity towards yourself, to be ego-less or not taking yourself too seriously. In other words, it's a quality in a person that would be modest and not too egoistic. Important thing to stress here is that an apparent lack of "self- distance" is a negative thing while too much self-distance can also be seen as a negative trait as it would been that you are actively trying to avoid giving yourself credit for something you have done, or dismiss any praise you might get from others. I am not sure if what I am trying to get at is clear enough or if I should try to explain it better. At any rate, I am trying to find a word or expression to express the same quality but I can't seem to find "self-distance" in any English dictionary. Is there a good, semi-formal word that fits in this context? |
680 | 30,332 | 76823_0 | I see an increasing demand for an unlike button in Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/The-Unlike-Button/72641866357 http://www.allfacebook.com/facebook-adds-unlike-2010-05 http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/facebook_unlike_button_comes_to_the_news_feed.php I have always used and understood unlike in the sense of dissimilar. Is it ever used in the sense of do not like? |
681 | 76,167 | 76823_0 | After reading this discussion, I'd like to know what example sentences distinguish the meaning of the words _lept_ , _leapt_ , and _leaped_ from each other? |
682 | 169,925 | 76823_0 | In English, we use the phrase "sheer force" much more often than "pure force" (Google Ngram). And willpower. _What is the difference, in meaning and usage, between the two (and is there a reason for such a discrepancy in usage)?_ For instance: * Both "sheer force" and "pure force" are grammatical in the following: * He overcame his addiction through pure force of will * He overcame his addiction through sheer force of will * Both "sheer willpower" and "pure willpower" are grammatical in the following: * He overcame his addiction through sheer willpower * He overcame his addiction through pure willpower * You could also use either in: * He overcame his addiction through sheer force of habit * He overcame his addiction through pure force of habit |
683 | 169,923 | 76823_0 | > He is as clever if not cleverer than his brother. > > Ranjeet is as fast as or perhaps faster than Rohit. Are both these sentences correct? As per _Wren And Martin High School English Grammar And Composition_ (BY N.D.V. PRASADA RAO S. CHAND), the first sentence is better like this: > He is as clever as his brother, if not cleverer. Or like this: > He is as clever as, if not cleverer than, his brother. (Chapter No-22 Conjunction.Page 255, example: This is as good as that, if not better.) Now in second sentence conjunction OR has been used so can I use the punctuation comma here too? If I can, then how can the 2nd sentence be right? |
684 | 153,772 | 76823_0 | _From Flappers to Rappers_ , a book of American youth slang, records "Priscilla" as a 1920s slang word for a girl who prefers to stay home. I'm curious to know why they've chosen that name. Is there any historical figure of whom they would have used to regard a Priscilla as one who bides at the house? |
685 | 7,566 | 76823_0 | I found _issues_ were used on some websites like "$1 an issue". (Some magazines.) But I found another word _periodical_ was used on my vocabulary book as follows: > The _periodical_ is published every month. Can I replace the _periodical_ with _issue_ here? Appreciate your comments and replies. |
686 | 15,165 | 76823_0 | I know it's a way of greeting someone, but I am not so sure when should I be using it, and how they differ from "hey" or "hi". |
687 | 147,731 | 76823_0 | In the book "Geisha", Liza Dalby writes the following about schools for wearing kimonos (for Japanese people): > The text of one school calls for an elderly lady to wear her kimono "with > dignity"; a middle aged woman, or "missus," to wear it "composedly"; and a > young girl to wear hers "neatly and sprucely". Presumably, the quotations are not verbatim, but English translations that try to capture the flavour of the original Japanese. In the book, Dalby apparently writes in American English (based on her use of "center" and "theater"), albeit in a slightly archaic style. For example, she uses "common whore", and "complaisant". In Australian English, the word "Missus" is used as a slang word in its own right, as opposed to it being just a pronunciation of "Mrs.". For example: > Harry said he couldn't stop and chat because his missus wanted to go > shopping. (By contrast, you can't say "the mister wanted to go to the hardware store" in Australian English) Is "Missus" used as a word in its own right in American English? Google NGrams says that the frequency of "Missus" is reasonably similar in American and British English, which would suggest it is not particular to Australia and New Zealand, whereas the second most upvoted entry on Urban Dictionary says that it is Australian and New Zealand English. |
688 | 15,167 | 76823_0 | I know that one can have a greater or lesser amount of surety (i.e. "I'm not really sure"), but don't you either know or not know something? Are there degrees of knowledge? I hear this phrase often from reporters and news correspondents: "We don't really know..." I think that this is a way to avoid saying "We don't know", which sounds more blunt, but is more precise. |
689 | 7,563 | 76823_0 | I want to say a strangely-lit grove, eerily-lit in an out-of-this-world manner. Does "fey-lit" convey that meaning? |
690 | 103,706 | 76823_0 | I am developing a software that requires users to enter hospital or clinic name. The software treats clinics and hospitals the same way. I wanted to know a _single_ word that can be used for any medical institution. Example use cases: In forms: > Hospital/clinic name: **___ __ ___ __ ___ ____** In URL: > http://website.com/hospital/search While I can use something like "Medical Facility" as blanket term for clinic, hospital, trauma center, nursing home, etc... I do not like it because: 1. it's big. 2. it has two words so URLs wouldn't look great `http://website.com/medical_facility/search`. Thanks. By the way, 'no' is perfectly OK answer. |
691 | 119,866 | 76823_0 | > General Party Secretary of the CCP, Xi Jinping, called for the revival of > the Chinese spirit. I think it's ungrammatical, and _the_ is required before _general_ , or the commas must be omitted. Do experts here agree? |
692 | 72,390 | 76823_0 | Does it mean 1. He doesn't have a strong will to win 2. Gods do not decide that he should win Bonus: How those 2 meaning of determined related? One means strong will, another means predestination. |
693 | 103,702 | 76823_0 | Just as the Bee dance, for a "language", I mean that there are vocal pattens. In the nature, there are many intelligent animals like human beings. Bird songs, whale songs, dogs? In fact, bird vocalization includes both bird calls and bird songs. There are Parrots, hummingbirds and songbirds,... I wish to know the most well-understood vocal animal languages. Which species? |
694 | 103,700 | 76823_0 | A recent question on this site ("to suspect" vs "to be suspicious of") asks about the difference between "to suspect" and "to be suspicious of." An even more complicated situation involves when to use _suspect_ as an adjective (as in "suspect reasoning" or "a suspect classification") and when to use _suspicious_ (as in "suspicious thoughts" or "a suspicious detective"). Is there a general rule about when to use one adjective or the other? Are they always interchangeable? A somewhat similar question comes up in an older query titled "that things were suspicious". In this connection I note Wilson Follett's comment (under **transitive/intransitive** ) in _Modern American Usage_ (1966): "Thus, _suspicious_ should designate the persons harboring a suspicion and _suspect_ the person who is the object of it. From this it follows that one cannot be _seen carrying a suitcase in a suspicious manner_." Presumably, Follett wants the author to use "in a suspect manner" here. Follett's analysis is clearly prescriptive and just as clearly ignores centuries of frequent contrary usage; but is there any validity to his prescription as a way for writers to avoid possible ambiguity, as in the case of "suspicious behavior" versus "suspect behavior"? |
695 | 170,680 | 76823_0 | Which of the following is grammatical? > 1. Can you please let me know by when you want it completed. > 2. Can you please let me know when you want it completed by. > I am preferring the latter, but will really appreciate your professional advice. |
696 | 170,681 | 76823_0 | I'm not a native English speaker and when I read the following sentence (which is taken from a roleplaying manual) I find it to be very confusing because of two possible meanings. > Any "shaken" opponent hit by you is "flat-footed" to your attacks. This is not exactly the original text: I've removed complicated concepts specific to the game like when the attack should be done or how long the flat- footed condition lasts and I've replaced a list of possible conditions with shaken - I want to ask about the structure of the sentence, not the game (I already have asked about it at RPG.SE and I discovered mt problem is not in the rules but in the language). It's also very important to understand that _shaken_ and _flat-footed_ are different conditions in the game. So, I initially read that as "Any opponent that is shaken and I have hit is now flat-footed" (While the opponent I have hit is shaken, it's also flat-footed) The vast majority of people reads that as "Any opponent you hit while it was shaken" (If I have hit the hopponent while it was shaken, now it's flat-footed) ...and I see that their option is valid too. I think it's a sentence parsing problem with the two options being equivalent to: 1. Any shaken **opponent** hit by you is flat-footed to your attacks. 2. Any **shaken opponent** hit by you is flat-footed to your attacks. Where the subject of the sentence is bolded Someone also tells me my interpretation is _not a viable choice_ or _not how it works_ , and I'd like to know if they are right. Is my vision plain wrong because of some English sentence structure rule I'm not aware of? |
697 | 170,682 | 76823_0 | I'm trying to say that many people are doing the same thing -- when I did it, I was viewed differently. But the sentence sounds a bit dull, I'd like other ways to phrase this or suggestions. > While I told my speech, I had come to the realization that I was being > observed differently than others who were doing the same thing I was. |
698 | 111,954 | 76823_0 | The ideal word, which can be either an adjective or a noun, should describe (or at least allude to) the idea that doing something _anywhere_ and _anytime_ with _anyone_ , or that something is done anywhere, anytime, by anyone. If no such word exists to satisfy all three above, then a word to satisfy the former two ( _anywhere_ and _anytime_ ) is OK too. **Update:** I agree that some context should be given to better narrow down the choices. I mainly want to describe something (e.g. a service or goods) that would enable people to complete a task or to accomplish some goal anytime and anywhere. |
699 | 111,957 | 76823_0 | > There were things his grandchildren, in turn, should know. Yet he hesitated. > How do you tell your children they are _progenies_ of the self-proclaimed > inventor of Manhattan clam chowder? (The New York Times) Oxford Dictionaries say "progeny" is a noun treated as singular or plural, but on Internet I found a number of occurrences of "progenies" and, hence, a doubt arose to my mind: is it entirely wrong pluralize "progeny"? |
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