Pronouns/ I or Me

Pronouns/ I or Me
Message from saturnurani posted on 03-07-2013 at 11:12:06 (D | E | F)
Hello,

Could you help me please?
what can be used in the gap? and why?
me or I
-Who knocked at the door ?
-It was ...... who knocked at the door, I've lost my key.
Thank you for your answers.

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Edited by lucile83 on 03-07-2013 11:48

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from komiks, posted on 03-07-2013 at 11:24:37 (D | E)
Hello,
This sentence is from the test n° 100336 : Link

'I' is the correct answer, but there's an explanation for this sentence : It was I who... is elevated language. We often say It was me who... which is not very correct.
See you

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from lemagemasque, posted on 03-07-2013 at 14:35:52 (D | E)
Hello!

True that the explanation is missing on tolearnenglish!
"It was I..." and "It was me..." are right!
Why?

You know that English comes from several languages such as Latin.
In Latin, there are cases:
- Nominative
- Vocative
- Accusative
- Genitive
- Dative
- Ablative

In English, you still have some traces of the Latin cases:
"Who did you go... with?" should be "Whom did you go... with?"
Normally you should use the nomative case and say "It was I...".
But, now, people say "It is me" rather than "It is I".
See you!

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from lucile83, posted on 03-07-2013 at 15:29:36 (D | E)
Hello

You are right lemagemasque and I added a note in the introduction of the English version (TLE).
Mind here, you wrote:
"Who did you go... with?" should be "Whom did you go... with?"
in fact, if you want to use whom, you can, but...you have to write 'with whom...'
Then...who did you go with/ with whom did you go are correct.
You can understand better now why 'whom' is no longer used because it is a little complicated.

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from lemagemasque, posted on 03-07-2013 at 16:50:15 (D | E)
Hello!

About "whom":
You can say "Who did you go... with?" or "Whom did you go... with?" or "With whom did you go... with?".
No matter! That only depends on your language register.

"With whom did you go... with?" is more formal.
"Whom did you go... with?" is less formal but quite formal.
"Who did you go... with?" is more common.

See you!

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Edited by lemagemasque on 03-07-2013 16:50
"Case" is the right term, not "declension"!

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from komiks, posted on 03-07-2013 at 16:57:52 (D | E)
Hi lemagemasque
With the different cases come the different declensions ...

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from lemagemasque, posted on 03-07-2013 at 17:08:39 (D | E)
Hello!

I should say: "With the different declensions, come the different cases..."

See you!

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from sherry48, posted on 03-07-2013 at 17:12:43 (D | E)
Hello.
It helps to first identify the subject of the sentence, since I is a subject pronoun and me is an object pronoun.
Here is a link which may be helpful. Link

Sherry
I meant to add a second link. Link


I'm glad you liked that link, lucile, but I actually meant to send this link. This time I confirmed that the link copied before sending! Link

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Edited by sherry48 on 03-07-2013 17:16


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Edited by sherry48 on 03-07-2013 17:27

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from lucile83, posted on 03-07-2013 at 17:15:57 (D | E)
Hello

lemagemasque is right. Accusative for instance is a case. I mixed them up
Link

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from lucile83, posted on 03-07-2013 at 17:24:03 (D | E)
Hello

I read another topic about I or Me in the second link given by sherry:
Link

Quite interesting!

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from lemagemasque, posted on 03-07-2013 at 18:10:52 (D | E)
I really like this link Link
and this one too: Link

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from lucile83, posted on 03-07-2013 at 19:09:15 (D | E)
Yes, and in the first one, you can listen to the lesson! great!

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Re: Pronouns/ I or Me from lemagemasque, posted on 03-07-2013 at 19:15:27 (D | E)
You're right! I didn't see that!
Thank you!

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