Interview with Steve Hargadon about LibriVox
Here’s an hour-long discussion, with interaction from the audience, about LibriVox, with me & Steve Hargadon, for his Future of Education series.
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May 18th, 2011 at 6:02 am
hi everyone!
i’m here to learn more about english!
May 26th, 2011 at 1:20 pm
Future of Education is a good thing. Should be “Steve Hargadon and I,” not “me and Steve Hargadon.” Just an observation.
May 27th, 2011 at 9:34 am
@frank … pronouns following prepositions in a prepositional phrase use the objective case (“me,” not “i”; “him” not “he”), not the subjective case.
In the sentence you’ve pointed out the subject, verb and object of the sentence are found here:
“Here’s an hour long discussion”
subject = hour-long discussion
verb = is
here = adjective participle
The rest of the bits of that sentence are all adjective prepositional phrases which modify the subject (discussion).
So:
“with interaction from the audience”
“about LibriVox”
“for his Future of Education series”
and finally:
“with me and Steve Hargadon” ….
are all prepositional phrases which modify the subject “discussion.”
And in a prepositional phrase, the pronoun should be in the objective (not subjective) case.
Hence “with me and Steve Hargadon” is correct, and “with Steve Hargadon and I” would be incorrect, though grammarians call that sort of error “hypercorrection,” and are tolerant of it because, at least, the hypercorrectors are trying to do the right thing even if they aren’t.
My mother, however, would have told me that while my sentence was grammatically corrected, it is impolite, as one should always mention the other person before oneself in such circumstances.