Comment on Sex in the Bathroom and the Problem of Offline DataparentComments−yew14yAre you sure 'between my friends and me' is actually incorrect? It is a prepositional phrase, unless I'm mistaken. I admit to having little familiarity with the relevant grammar.(Boy is this off topic!)−robotresearcher14yMaybe opinions are changing on this one, but the way I learned it is simple: refer to yourself as if the other person wasn't there. So:Come to the store with my Dad and I. (no) Come to the the store with I.Come to the store with my Dad and me. (yes) Come to the the store with me.Dad and me went to the store. (no) Me went to the store.Dad and I went to the store. (yes) I went to the store.Remove the third party and it's immediately obvious which to use.−yew14yThat rule is usually correct, but has some exceptions. Though 'between me' sounds better to my ear than 'between I'.Regardless, 'me' is always correct as the object of a prepositional phrase because it's an object pronoun. 'I' is a subject pronoun.
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Are you sure 'between my friends and me' is actually incorrect? It is a prepositional phrase, unless I'm mistaken. I admit to having little familiarity with the relevant grammar.
(Boy is this off topic!)
Maybe opinions are changing on this one, but the way I learned it is simple: refer to yourself as if the other person wasn't there. So:
Come to the store with my Dad and I. (no) Come to the the store with I.
Come to the store with my Dad and me. (yes) Come to the the store with me.
Dad and me went to the store. (no) Me went to the store.
Dad and I went to the store. (yes) I went to the store.
Remove the third party and it's immediately obvious which to use.
That rule is usually correct, but has some exceptions. Though 'between me' sounds better to my ear than 'between I'.
Regardless, 'me' is always correct as the object of a prepositional phrase because it's an object pronoun. 'I' is a subject pronoun.