Sinister: "She and me"

[Tony Zito]

how about:

I am she and me, I'd prefer not to.

t.

At 12:47 PM 11/25/98 , M R McDonald wrote:
>
>> >>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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