Grammar

Thursday, March 8, 2007

...Me went to the movies ... Hollywood can't write as good as I....

M

e or I and I am me.

I hear it all the time.

Me and my friend went to the show...

He's not that smart. He's certainly not as smart as I.

The misuse of I and me is so common I ignore it, but then I read this from page 8 of While Europe Slept by Bruce Bawer published by Doubleday.

How often had I stood in a New York subway surrounded by men, many of them smaller than I...

Would you say: Me went to the show? No, but every day people say: me and fill in the partner went to the show.

And as smart as I may be, I'm not as smart as I think I am or as smart as me.

Posted 2007/03/08 at 01h09ET in Writing.