What is the difference between "Me" and "I" in English?

Question

Hi everyone , I have a very silly question I want to know what are the differences between : Me & I because in loeeee's question here some of the members said that he should use Me and others said that he should use I

me and lovely _lovely
lovely _lovely and I

For examples :- do I say :

1. Me and my friend

or

1. My friend and I

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1. Me and him

or

1. He and I

So which one is correct and which one is incorrect ?

Answer 1

It's the difference between subject and object pronouns. I do something. Something happens to me.

If my friend and I went to the beach, I would say, "Joe and I went to the beach". We were the ones doing the action. If a girl talked to us while we were there, "The girl talked to Joe and me". Someone else did something to us. When in doubt, remove the other person's name or the other pronoun and see if the sentence sounds right. "Me went to the beach", or "The girl talked to I" just don't sound right.

thanks a lot for explaning Kevin you really helped me out :) - 00b6f46c, Aug 8, 2010

Actually "I" is a subject pronoung. "Me" is a direct object, indirect object, and pronomial object pronoun in English. :) - revmaf, Aug 8, 2010

I bow to your expertise. I knew no English grammar until I started studying Spanish grammar, and a lot of that has gone away in the last 35 years. Thanks. - KevinB, Aug 8, 2010

That's an excellent explanation Kevin. - fontanero, Aug 9, 2010

Answer 2

some of the members said that he should use Me

I looked so hard to see what member said that, that I found a mistake in every answer in that thread. At least one, in every answer.

But I could not find anyone proposing incorrect case for the 1st person pronoun. Did it get deleted?

silly question

Your question is not silly ... Kevin, Ref, & Jeezzle all took time to help you.

And if I may, I would like to recap what Kevin said:

When you are making it happen, - use: I, we, he, she, it, they.

When it is happening to you, - use: Me, us, him, her, it, them.

Lovely and I noticed him.

He noticed Lovely and me.

The sad thing is that if you learn that, you will be ahead of many native English speakers.

Yep. English speakers who don't think about it almost always use "me". Those that learn a little bit always use "I". Well said. - KevinB, Aug 8, 2010

No middle ground, right? - LateToDinner, Aug 8, 2010

Agreed. - fontanero, Aug 9, 2010

Answer 3

In that sentence, Lovely_Lovely and I is the correct usage. I noticed something. Lovely_Lovely noticed something. Lovely_Lovely and I noticed.

thanks jeezzle :) - 00b6f46c, Aug 8, 2010

Answer 4

That's not a silly question at all and as Late mentioned it's one of those things that native English speakers often get wrong.

Use the pronoun I, along with other subjective pronouns such as we, he, she, you, and they, when the pronoun is the subject of a verb:

I went to town. She went to town. John and I waited for the bus.*

Use the pronoun me, along with other objective pronouns such as us, him, her, you, and them, when the pronoun is the object of a verb:

The children followed John and me to town.*

** An easy way of making sure you’ve chosen the right pronoun is to see whether the sentence reads properly if you remove the additional noun: Ie. 'I waited for the bus.' and 'The children followed me to town.'*