I know we have the comma people, the apostrophe people and all kinds of grammar, spelling, etc. people.
I am a ‘him and I’ person.
It is not ‘him and I’, it is ‘he and I’ or ‘him and me’.
Someone does not give a book to ‘him and I’, they give it to ‘him and me’.
Somebody doesn’t tell a story to ‘her and I’, they tell it to ‘her and me’.
‘And I’ is not always correct in the sentence and it makes me cringe every time I read it or hear it. I hear it far to often on TV, by people who are supposedly educated (do you hear me Ramona from the HWNYC?). She is far from the only one.
He and I went to the store. He went, I went.
Tom invited him and me to his party. Tom invited him, Tom invited me. You wouldn’t say Tom invited I to his party.
I don’t want to be the language police but come on people. It’s not that hard to figure out and when I read a post with ‘him and me’ I figure it’s not worth reading.
I might be missing out on some good stuff.
I knew I’d miss something, it has to be that way. Whenever I correct something I have to make a mistake. Keeps me humble, or that’s what I tell myself anyway.
Hear, hear, OP! Agreed, though I can’t say I’m perfect at it - especially when speaking casually. I also have to join in on the hate for “myself” which I’m seeing more often and makes me want to strangle somebody.
Actually, I’m trying to think of a case where “him and me are okay” would work where the verb reflects the pair of pronouns. I mean, that makes “him and me” the subject, so properly it would be “he and I are okay.”
Yeah, other than cheating by changing “him and me” to proper nouns like “Him and Me,” I can’t see a way to make it work. (We had a Chinese woman named “Me” or possibly “Mee” in my freshman year dorm. It took me a little getting used to constructions like “Me is playing a piano recital at 7 p.m. Do you want to go see it?”)
