You're welcome. And don't kick yourself for not knowing this. Pronoun case
forms in English are having a difficult time remaining in place. The
reason? They serve little practical purpose in communication because we
usually look to word order instead of word form for such syntactic
functions. They are a vestige of old English which looked more to word form
than to word order.
Jeff Glauner
Associate Professor of English
Park University, Box 1303
8700 River Park Drive
Parkville MO 64152
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rabinowitz, Jennifer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:32 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: A Basic Question!
Yippee!
Thanks.
-----Original Message-----
From: Glauner, Jeff [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 5:22 PM
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Subject: Re: A Basic Question!
"Between you and me" is correct. The reason that "me" is the correct choice
is that "you and me" is the compound object of a preposition. "Me" is the
objective form. "I" is the nominative form used for subjects and subject
complements.
Jeff Glauner
Associate Professor of English
Park University, Box 1303
8700 River Park Drive
Parkville MO 64152
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-----Original Message-----
From: Rabinowitz, Jennifer [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 4:00 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: A Basic Question!
Hello again. I have a question that most of you will probably be able to
quickly answer:
Would you say "There's nothing between you and me" or "There's nothing
between you and I." I think that it should be "you and me," but I've always
been lousy at grammar and so my sinking, defeatist feeling is that I'm
wrong, wrong, wrong.
But if so, then please explain why!
Thanks. Jenny
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