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Bookmark or Share- Should I put myself last? "me and my friends" vs. "my friends and me ...My partner and I went shopping. My partner and I = subject. A friend gave this to my partner and me. Partner and me = object. It all depends on where the phrase fits in the sentence. Sometimes you hear I used incorrectly as in "That's a picture of my partner and I." It should be: "That's a picture of my partner and me" because partner and me ...
- What is the proper way to say possesive with "person X" and self?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. Is it "Julie's and mine", "Mine and Julies", "Julie and my"...? For instance, "Julie and my favorite band is Eluveitie."
- Why do you say "friend of mine" instead of "friend of me"?In friend of mine, mine means my friends, so literally He is [one] friend of [all my friends]. or, more idiomatically, He is one of my friends. If I only have one friend and he is my only friend, we cannot then say "he is a friend of mine", because the "mine" doesn't mean a group of people.
- "One of my friends" vs "a friend of mine" - English Language & Usage ...ex. 3 I think my new friends could see how frustrated I was with this new job of mine, I really didn't fit it and I started to wonder if I had made a huge mistake by leaving the community. ex. 4 Another job of mine was cleaning the walk-in oven.
- Is there a single word for a "friend of a friend"?spoken on the phone as a favor to the common friend ; interceded on some issue at the request of the friend ; never met or spoken at all, but are aware of the other based on information provided by the mutual friend; be on the road to becoming a friend-in-fact; You, the friend, and the friend-of-a-friend are all links in a social network.
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