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Post by tim on Feb 8, 2008 2:00:27 GMT 1
No it's not....
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Post by kath on Feb 8, 2008 8:55:10 GMT 1
Yes, it really is. If you took away Andrew from the sentence "Just Andrew and I", then it would read "Just I" which is incorrect. Thus it is "Just and Andrew and me" as if you took Andrew away it would read "Just me" which IS correct. That's how you tell whether to use "and me" or "and I" - take the other subject away from the sentence. You don't just use "and I" regardless, because half the time your grammar will be wrong.
Trust me, I do a literate subject...
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Post by tim on Feb 9, 2008 8:35:01 GMT 1
But in your example ... if you took andrew away it would read "Just and and me"  so you ought to put I as to make it utterly and totolly wrong  |
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Post by kath on Feb 9, 2008 9:27:45 GMT 1
Well...obviously if the second subject wasn't there then you wouldn't need the and...but I suspect this has devolved into semantics...
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Post by Owen on Feb 10, 2008 17:39:16 GMT 1
but I suspect this has devolved into semantics... And all because I posted a photo of a 5 star DJ center... |
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Post by Waaaaaayne on Feb 11, 2008 14:15:27 GMT 1
If you want to be pedantic both "Just Andrew and I" and "Just Andrew and Me" are sentence fragments, the correct setence would be "Just Andrew and I are joining you". (Which under Kath's shortening method becomes "Just I am joining you"). It therfore seems to me that if you are going to use bad grammar and drop the "are joining you" you should hold the rest of the setence the same.
Of course like all English it's not the technical correctness that matters, it's how intelligent you sound, and clearley Andrew and I sounds far more intelligent.
Errrm anyway I should probably do my job now...
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Post by kath on Feb 11, 2008 16:23:18 GMT 1
I suspect you shouldn't expound upon things of which you are clearly ignorant.
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Post by Ben G. on Feb 12, 2008 12:43:21 GMT 1
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so you ought to put I as to make it utterly and totolly wrong 
