Grammar for Grown-Ups by Katherine Fry

Author:Katherine Fry
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Grammar, Words, Vocabulary, Language & Grammar, Nonfiction, Slang & Word Lists, Reference & Test Preparation, Reference
ISBN: 9781448138708
Publisher: Vintage Digital
Published: 2012-09-05T22:00:00+00:00

‘Guess who ended up doing the drying as well.’ ‘Me.’

To say ‘I’ instead of ‘me’ in both instances would sound affected. However, if a verb were to be added, ‘me’ would become ‘I’ – because to say ‘Me will’ and ‘Me did’ is obviously nonsense. With a verb such as ‘to be’, though, it is not so clear-cut. ‘Is that a photo of Great-Auntie May?’ ‘No, it’s me, aged twelve!’ To say ‘No, it’s I’ is perhaps what Great-Auntie May would have said, but it is far more natural nowadays to say ‘me’.

In the following sentences, should ‘I’ or ‘me’ be used?

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