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Should a photograph label read “you and I” or “you and me”? [duplicate]
I had a debate with my friend about this topic because he had a photo captioned:
Seth and I playing lion king
and I said it should be
Seth and me playing lion king
Which is correct?
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“Whoever” Vs. “Whomever”
On the subject of "whoever" and "whomever", I was reading this but I am still confused: http://www.grammarbook.com/grammar/whoever.asp
What is the correct use of whoever/whomever in the following ...
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In “Enter John”, is John in the nominative or accusative case?
This question made me think about the structure of the sentence.
I'm familiar with the expression 'Enter Michael'/'Exit John' to represent Michael's or John's entry or exit, respectively, to a ...
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Which grammatical case is “him” in “I help him”, and why?
In languages which distinguish the accusative and dative cases, it is clear from the actual usage whether a divalent verb takes a direct or indirect object. For example, the German eat takes a direct ...
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Is it correct to say that English has the dative case?
Is it correct to say that, nowadays, English has the dative case, or was it only present in Old English?
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Why do we use the object instead of the subject pronoun in constructions like “stupid me”?
I'm trying to find out how come we say lucky me and stupid us rather than lucky I and stupid we. My understanding is that this is not a recent invention, but a relic from the distant past where it was ...
