Something that really irritates me is the misuse of Me, Myself and I.
For example “Give it to ME” is correct, but “Give it to Dad and I”. Why does Me change to I when the subjects are plural ?
Is "Give it to Dad and I" correct? I would always say "Give it to Dad and me"...
No it isn’t correct, that’s the point I’m making. The same person could say both sentences, one right and one wrong - no logic why they change ME to I when a second person is added !
drives me mad !
Me too. Are you a teacher, by any chance? The quick way to check, I tell the kids, is to change it to singular form. Give it to me. Not Give it to I. Easy enough!
I must confess that sometimes I just don't understand what people are saying, I know that they're speaking English and sometimes I can recognise individual words but the whole just doesn't make any sense. I think I must be getting old.
David Mitchell wtote a great rant (in the Guardian, I think) about the government's use of "road map" to describe their plan to get the better of Covid. He pointed out that a map doesn't suggest the route you should take - so actually, given the govt's changes of mind about the way out of the Covid crisis, maybe they've been unintentionally correct in calling it a map rather than a plan...
Since 2019 I've lived in east Clare, in the west of Ireland.
"Let's be clear..", "I want to be perfectly clear.."...it makes me want to scream! Politicians say it all the time, probably when they are about to lie.
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Are you a teacher, by any chance?
The quick way to check, I tell the kids, is to change it to singular form. Give it to me. Not Give it to I.
Easy enough!
That means it's certain to happen if they can get away with it.
Means , " we're kicking this down the road for as long as can and hope folk forget all about it"
“It's still magic even if you know how it's done.”