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Bookmark or Share- What is the proper way to say possesive with "person X" and self?Possible Duplicate: My wife and I's seafood collaboration dinner. I've never known what the proper way to use a sentence in which you and a specific person (as in you can't just say "our" because you want to specify who) possess something.
- "Alex and I" vs. "me and Alex" - English Language & Usage Stack ExchangeJack and I went to the store). 2: Placing yourself first/last in such a construction (me and Jack v. Jack and me), which is a convention, not a grammatical rule, as suggested by Buck Naked below. #1 is indeed an issue of grammar. #2 is not: so while it may be frowned upon to place yourself first, it is not by any means ungrammatical. – Justin ...
- If you are talking "on behalf of" you and someone else, what is the ...I looked at a bunch of style guides to see what they have to say on this subject. The vast majority of them dedicate at least a paragraph to the distinction (or nondistinction) between "in behalf of" and "on behalf of"—but not one addresses the question of how to handle "on behalf of" when used by a speaker to refer to another person and to him- or herself.
- grammar - "Name and I" or "name and me" when they are neither the ...It would indeed generally depend on whether or not the first person was the subject or object of the verb, but your example brings forth another grammatical rule with the preposition "between" which always takes "me" after "and" when the first person is referred to.
- grammar - When do I use "I" instead of "me?"The correct rule is that "me" becomes "I" when the "me" is the subject node all by itself. If it is part of a clause that contains other things, and this clause is the subject, then the "I" is supposed to be "me", and it is an illiterate hypercorrection to use "I". So the following sentence is the correct one:
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