David Burke Nathan jones and ME! (The English Grammar Thread!)

[GingerBeerMan]

"Should of bin, shirley?", shirley?

Should of

 

[bWize]

Tosh. The statement on the website is grammatically correct: "The final decisions have been taken with input from David Burke, Nathan Jones and me"
You can hardly say "The decisions have been taken with input from I", can you?

Should it not be "The final decisions have been taken with input from David Burke, Nathan Jones and myself"

?

 

[Goldstone1976]

Should of

Woosh!

 

[soistes]

Should it not be "The final decisions have been taken with input from David Burke, Nathan Jones and myself"

?

Nope, "me" is fine. "The final decisions have been taken by me", is grammatically correct.

People often use "myself" incorrectly in this context, because they're confused about the distinction between "me" and "I" and think that "myself" gets round it, or even because they think that "myself" sounds somehow more formal and highbrow. It doesn't -- it just sounds wrong.

For a basic introduction see
http://voices.yahoo.com/common-grammar-mistakes-part-one-me-myself-i-570103.html
or
http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/me_myself.htm
or
http://www.webpagecontent.com/arc_archive/138/5/

 

[Goldstone Rapper]

Nope, "me" is fine. "The final decisions have been taken by me", is grammatically correct.

People often use "myself" incorrectly in this context, because they're confused about the distinction between "me" and "I" and think that "myself" gets round it, or even because they think that "myself" sounds somehow more formal and highbrow. It doesn't -- it just sounds wrong.

For a basic introduction see
http://voices.yahoo.com/common-grammar-mistakes-part-one-me-myself-i-570103.html
or
http://www.grammar-monster.com/lessons/me_myself.htm
or
http://www.webpagecontent.com/arc_archive/138/5/

Excellent. There are other words people frequently use incorrectly to sound more high-brow, such as 'erstwhile'. Fools!

 

[narly101]

Excellent. There are other words people frequently use incorrectly to sound more high-brow, such as 'erstwhile'. Fools!

and "yourselves" rather then "you".

 

[daveyboy1973]

Yawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[The Truth]

Yawn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Overuse of the exclamation mark.

 

[Goldstone1976]

It's the JCL's who use "you" instead of "thou" that defiantly wind me up; sometimes they even definitely say that they are right. The difference between discreet and discrete alludes some too, though eluding to it in this thread won't win me any friends. Several folk cant' use apostrophe's properly either; thats irritating to. To few people use too correctly; perhaps only too do? Less and less folk know when to use few or fewer.

I'll stop now; I have other acts of pedantry too attend two.

 

[albionalbino]

were loose