One trick to use when checking your grammar is to remove part of your sentence and see if it still makes sense.<\/p>\n
I find this useful when considering if “I” should be used instead of “me”.<\/p>\n
Think about the sentence I have just written and substitute “Me” for the initial “I” – “Me find this useful…” just does not make any real sense in that context and “I” is correctly used.<\/p>\n
Now think about this sentence:<\/p>\n
“They gave my father and I drinks at the pub.”<\/p>\n
That sounds natural and correct to me but it is not correct – remove “my father” and you would have “They gave I drinks at the pub.” which sounds wrong and indeed it is – using “me” is better, so:<\/p>\n
“My father and me were bought drinks at the pub.”<\/p>\n
Now look at this example:<\/p>\n
“My son and I went to the park.”<\/p>\n
Removing “My son” leaves us with “I went to the park.” and that is correct – in this instance “I” is correctly used rather than me.<\/p>\n
I see “myself” used to get around this grammatical conundrum but that just seems clumsy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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