Sinister: more grammar, with apologies

[Tony Zito]

>and one last thing, amelia has remembered roughly how to do the 'she and me'
>thing;
>"Did Sarah have dinner with Jeffrey that night, or was it she and me?"
>
>"I think you need to set up the sentence with a clear subject and object and
>then substitute in the she and me for these in a second clause."

Nope, this doesn't work; it should be "...or was it she and I?". The trick
here is to reverse the order of the fragments, making it "It was she and
I," which is correct. 

(yes, the rastafarians got it on the button; it's "I am I," not "I am me".)

yr personal grammatrix,
t. 
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