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 Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 12:22 am
I had to think for a little bit to get that through my system at first, but I got it right.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:34 pm
"Suzy, Billy, and I will judge the contest." is the correct way to write the sentence. Stumper? Not really.
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Posted: Sun Oct 08, 2006 12:35 pm
Yami no Hitokiri It's the second one. It's the same thing as when someone says, "Joe will be going to the mall with Bernard and I." That's incorrect; the correct being "Joe will be going to the mall with Bernard and me." After all, you wouldn't say, "The contest will be judged by I" or "Joe will be going to the mall with I", would you? But "Suzy, Billy and I" are the subjects.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 12:44 am
metalmalzan "Suzy, Billy, and I will judge the contest." is the correct way to write the sentence. Stumper? Not really. You're changing the voice of the verb by doing that, though.
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:36 pm
Ezra Pound metalmalzan "Suzy, Billy, and I will judge the contest." is the correct way to write the sentence. Stumper? Not really. You're changing the voice of the verb by doing that, though. Exactly. You change it from passive to active. Though passive may not be preferred, it is still valid.
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Posted: Thu Oct 12, 2006 8:39 pm
Ezra Pound Mekaama Ha! I have stumped you all! The correct sentence is: The contest will be judged by Suzy, Billy, and me. Why? Because, "by" is a preposition. Suzy, Billy, and the personal pronoun are objects of that preposition and need to be in objective form. "Me" is the objective form. "I" is the subjective. It would be correct here, as the subject: Suzy, Billy, and I will judge the contest. Get your case names right. I is nominative, me is accusative/dative/ablative, my is genitive. Wasn't going by cases, just functions. Objects, subjects. Haven't studied cases for two years I'm afraid. rolleyes
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 1:04 am
I wouldn't use the last comma in either sentance- I was taught that was redundent (although I though that different schools disagree on this).
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 7:24 am
Mekaama Ezra Pound Mekaama Ha! I have stumped you all! The correct sentence is: The contest will be judged by Suzy, Billy, and me. Why? Because, "by" is a preposition. Suzy, Billy, and the personal pronoun are objects of that preposition and need to be in objective form. "Me" is the objective form. "I" is the subjective. It would be correct here, as the subject: Suzy, Billy, and I will judge the contest. Get your case names right. I is nominative, me is accusative/dative/ablative, my is genitive. Wasn't going by cases, just functions. Objects, subjects. Haven't studied cases for two years I'm afraid. rolleyes Well, don't use words like "objective" and "subjective" -- they have entirely different meanings. WarKitty I wouldn't use the last comma in either sentance- I was taught that was redundent (although I though that different schools disagree on this). Indeed, some people like a comma before the end of a list, some don't.
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Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 8:04 pm
Thanks, Writing with Style! In this case, I knew not to reverse the sentence but to take out the two names.
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Posted: Sat Oct 14, 2006 7:02 am
Whoremone Second one. You just don't end a sentence with I.
Unfortunately I'm not as advanced in English and grammar as you wonderful people are, but I still get around. I chose the "me" option.
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Posted: Sun Oct 15, 2006 6:11 pm
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Posted: Mon Oct 16, 2006 8:15 pm
This happens to be a huge pet peeve of mine. I hear people misusing "I" all the time.
The contest will be judged by Billy, Suzy, and me.
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 8:41 am
O_o
wow, that's really interesting that the one place where i think its 'I' its actually 'ME' ^^
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Posted: Tue Oct 17, 2006 1:19 pm
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 1:24 pm
Mekaama Ha! I have stumped you all! The correct sentence is: The contest will be judged by Suzy, Billy, and me. Why? Because, "by" is a preposition. Suzy, Billy, and the personal pronoun are objects of that preposition and need to be in objective form. "Me" is the objective form. "I" is the subjective. It would be correct here, as the subject: Suzy, Billy, and I will judge the contest. Yay! I got it right! Thank you, college writing courses!
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