Charlie and Me: 421 Miles From Home

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Narrated by 13-year-old Martin Tompkins, this is a beautiful coming-of-age story. Martin is going on a trip to Cornwall, a place 421 miles from home, along with his younger brother Charlie, aged 10. Sneaking out in the early hours while their parents are still asleep, Martin and Charlie embark on the journey of a lifetime, hoping to recreate their previous family vacation and to spot a dolphin. Endorsed in “ Excuse me, Mr. Trump!” [ Grammarphobia]. This rule applies to all pronouns equally, so the application of this rule to “I” vs. “me” is exactly the same as the application to “we” vs. “us”, “he” vs. “him”, “she” vs. “her”, and “they” vs. “them”. I have noticed several problems in the other answers to this question, and I hope to correct them in mine. Me is the object pronoun, used as the object (or receiver) of the action of the verb, as in these examples:

There is a third prescriptive rule about case that is fairly widely known. Probably there are some people who would say it is still “technically correct” or something like that, but in practice people rarely follow it or recommend following it nowadays, because it often results in sentences that sound terribly unnatural to pretty much everybody: I loved the poems preceding every chapter. Written by Marty, they are warm and funny, and also depict his emotional turmoil. This is formal, high-prestige English as taught to native English speakers who want to improve their language to advance in society. It is the most correct style in the sense that it has the highest prestige. But it is not how people normally speak, and most children even in educated families do not learn this style naturally. Charlie and Me: 421 Miles From Home is heart-warming and exciting. The perfect balance of laughter, sadness, tension, and unexpected revelations make this a wonderful book.

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There are three styles of using "you and I" or "you and me". For each I will give two example sentences - the first with "you and I/me" as the subject and the second with "you and I/me" as the object. I especially admired that he loved to draw, as I do, contributing his art to the band’s albums and famously sketching his hotel rooms while on tour. I felt an odd kinship with this effortlessly cool guy. He played the way I wanted to—behind the scenes, patiently driving the band with elegance and flair. The prescriptive rule being unnatural is not necessarily inconsistent with a prescriptivist viewpoint. Assuming “natural” is the same thing as “good” is called the “appeal to nature”; this is generally considered a fallacy. Many prescriptivists would concede that people don’t intuitively choose prestige forms; if they did, prescriptivists wouldn't have such a market peddling advice manuals to linguistically insecure speakers such as you and I. (Or should that be “such as me and you”? “Such as you and me”?) I think most thoughtful people could guess that a rule that is known to trip up even educated adult writers isn’t going to be easy for children to acquire. While the natural rules of grammar are of great interest to linguists, native speakers rarely spend much time learning about them because ... they come naturally. Whether it's ever worth the extra effort it takes to follow an unnatural rule is a matter of opinion, not fact. This is normal English as learned by many children, found in prose and dialogue in works of the best authors, and taught to learners of English as a second language. I is of course the normal subject pronoun and me is the normal object pronoun. But in this style, me is also an emphatic variant of I that is used (among other uses) whenever several nouns or pronouns are joined into a single subject or object. This is the most correct style in the sense that it is how educated normal people normally speak.

Pronouns connected by coordinating conjunctions such as “and” or “or” should be put in the same case that a lone pronoun would have in the same position.” I can speak Russian, but I can't read it very well. ( I is the subject of can speak and can’t read.)

As Ron Maimon argues, this rule is arguably not “correct” if we define that as meaning “in accordance with the underlying system of grammar that native English speakers naturally acquire”. Prescriptive rules for position and case of pronouns Which one is correct to say: ‘It’s me’ or ‘It’s I’?” [ELU]; Grammarphobia (“ How should you answer the phone?”) says to use this rule “if you want to be strictly correct,” but “in all but the most formal writing, ‘It’s me’ is now acceptable.”