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 [log in to unmask] http://www.park.edu/jglauner/index.htm -----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 To: [log in to unmask] 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 [log in to unmask] http://www.park.edu/jglauner/index.htm -----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 To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/ To join or leave this LISTSERV list, please visit the list's web interface at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/ateg.html and select "Join or leave the list" Visit ATEG's web site at http://ateg.org/