Sinister: "She and me"

[M R McDonald]

> >>Someone was asking why yu couldn't use 'she and me' in a sentence.

You can use them in the same sentence ("She gave me the book."), just
not as the "she and me" combination together.

> An easy way to work it out is to leave out one of the people you're
> mentioning. You can't say something like "Stuart Murdoch gives she and

> me
> palpitations" because if you leave out the 'me' you get "Stuart
> Murdoch
> gives she palpitations" which is wrong. It should be 'her' and not
> 'she'.
> That's why I don't think you can have "she and me" in a sentence -
> it's
> grammatically incorrect because the two words are incompatible being
> in
> different declensions (if that's the right word). I think it might be
> to do
> with one being passive and the other active, but I'm not sure.

"She" is the subject of the verb and "me" would be the object of the
verb.

>
>
> Incidentally, you can use the same trick to work out whether you
> should be
> saying "you and I" or "you and me". But for the same reason you can
> only
> say "he and I" or "him and me". You can't say "he and me".

The best I can do to use "she and me" in the same sentence is, of
course, still grammatically _wrong_.  Here goes:  "She and me, whom she
despises, went to the park together."  You get the "She" (subject)
associated with "me, whom" (object,) so it might sound odd to say "She
and I, whom she despises ....", since the association of "I" and "whom"
could seem strange.  It's still _wrong_, though.

OK, next!

mars at pe.net



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