Okay, when you're referring to yourself as the subject of a sentence, use "I." If you're the object of a verb or preposition, use "me."
The rule seems to have become as follows: if used with "and" the word "me" is never correct. This leads to "Please pray for my wife and I." ARRRRG! You wouldn't say "Please pray for I" would you? I am far from grammatically perfect, but this just bugs the crap out of I.
My guess is that people have said, "Jane and me are going to the pool" and someone merely corrected, "Jane and I." So when the pool is too cold, it is to cold for "Jane and I."
How do we correct this huge problem? Does this even bother anyone else?
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i admit, yes, that bugs me a bit. mainly b/c people who say that really think they're using correct grammar.
I have to say, this is one of my biggest pet peeves! My mother is a self-proclaimed grammar queen and her title has made quite an impact on my tolerance for gramatical errors. I have no problem with spelling errors, as I am part of the spell-check era...but simple grammar! So, it may take me correcting myself occasionally but I hope you will never hear me make the 'I versus Me' mistake. (Or the preposition at the end of the sentence mistake - ouch!)
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