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Bookmark or Share- Grammar: Should the sentence say, "my sister or I" or "my sister or me"?"I" is definitely wrong. You wouldn't say "My mother won't put up with I swearing" either. However, there are still two possible correct wordings: Either using "my" or using "me" My mother won't put up with my sister or me swearing. meaning she won't put up with us [when we swear]. My mother won't put up with my sister's or my swearing.
- grammaticality - Which is correct, "you and I" or "you and me ...If this were the rule in English, "My mother and I am happy" would be correct since "I am happy" is correct. It is "My mother and I" that needs to be in the subjective case in the sentence "My mother and I went to the market". So this doesn't tell us whether the X should be "I" or "me" to make "My mother and X" subjective. (If we already knew ...
- Is there a word meaning "my child's spouse's parents"?The words mean "my child's parent(s)-in-law", literally "co-parent(s)". They are used in the first person (Hello, Sympathera!) as well as the third person. Sympatheroi has a niche use in the Uniform Parish Regulations of the Greek Orthodox Church in America:
- Filling out forms that ask for “relationship with”Forgive me for being perhaps nitpicky here, but my guess is that those forms you fill for your son really mean "relationship to child" not "relationship with child". Your relationship to the child would refer to how you were related to him/her, e.g. guardian, father, mother, uncle, etc, while your relationship with the child would indicate how ...
- What do the parents of married children call each other? As in, the ...In the Spanish language this word exists. It is Consuegros. Sadly, there is no equivalent in the English language to describe the relation of the in-laws to each other. Perhaps a version of this, "Co-mothers-in-law." Example, "Now that our children have married each other, I suppose that makes Marie my co-mother-in-law."
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