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You and me? Or, you and I?

The difference is whether the pronouns serve as subjects or objects of the verb; oh, and there's that whole bit about prepositions, too. Take a look …
By Daphne Gray-Grant | Posted: January 21, 2013
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Just between you and me, I go crazy when my teenage daughter says: "Emma and me are going to the store." I go even crazier when I hear a colleague say: "Fred and me will take care of it." Or, worse, "Give it to Fred and I, and we'll take care of it." All those sentences (the ones contained by quotation marks) are incorrect. You can be forgiven for not understanding why. Grammar is seldom taught in schools these days, and most of us struggle to speak correc read more...

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