Can I say "Me and John" or do I have to say "John and I"???

0It depends on whether you and John are the objects or the subjects.02br
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00She said she was also going to invite me and John. 02br
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00John and I are not going to be able to attend.02br
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00It's the same rule we've said here over and over. If "John" were not in the sentence, would you use "I" or "me"? Use the same one with Jo

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001: The word "I" and the word "me" are both words for the same person, the speaker of the sentence, what is the rule for using one word or the other. The rule is the word "I" is used as the subject of a sentence and the word “me” is used as the object of a sentence. In the sentence; "I am going to the store," the word "I' is t

0Hi Barbara02br
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00She said she was also going to invite 01b00me and John.02b02br
00Shouldn't it be: "She said she was also going to invite 01b00John and me02b00"?02br
00Shouldn't 'me' come after "John"?02br
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00Thanks in advance.0-

0Hi Yoong Liat,02br
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00That's by convention, not for rules of grammar. It's somehow seen as more polite to list the other person first. 02br
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00"I and John are coming" sounds out and out wrong, even though, grammatically, it's okay. I don't have as strong a feeling about "to me and John" or "to John and me." And when "John" and "me" are linked by a

0 Barbara02br
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00Thanks for your explanation. But is this the same case in BrE? I hope to hear from 02br
00a native speaker of BrE. Thanks in advance.0-

0 Hi everyone,02br
00this is interesting. Like Yoong, I noticed GG said "...invite me and John" instead of "John and me" (I was once told that "me" comes last, like "I").02br
00Anyway, I have to say that I think both "me and John" and "John and me" are equally idiomatic in object position, despite the fact that only "John and I" would be idiomatic, in every position (subj

Have a drink with John and me?

Yoong LiatBarbara

Thanks for your explanation. But is this the same case in BrE? I hope to hear from
a native speaker of BrE. Thanks in advance.

Hi Yoong Liat

I can't think of any differences in the way we say it (in British English).

Although in colloquial speech I would be more likely to say something like "me and Jo

Although in colloquial speech I would be more likely to say something like "me and John went to the pub",


I heard this type of construction almost exclusively among the Canadians that I came into contact with during a two-week trip through the Rockies a year ago., It really hurt my ears, especially the phrase "me and my mum (had dinner together last night).

Yoong Liat,

As a BrE speaker, I pretty much echo what A Cornish Pasty has written about the colloquial use of "Me and John went to the pub". It is very common in BrE speech, although the further you move up the social scale in the UK, the less likely you are to hear it (I can't imagine that HM the Queen ever says "Me and Phil went up the pub last night"; I guess she'd say, "My husband