Do we need the SR-71?

On Wed, 12 May 2004 20:14:08 +0000, Flyin'8 wrote:

The instructors at Pierce would surely disagree with you; I was taught
that
it was supremely poor grammar to use 'me' in that way. "Only
philllistenes speak in such a manner" I can clearly remember my third
grade teacher explaining when a student used poor grammar.

"Jane took John and I to dinner." or "Jane took John and myself to
dinner."
are the two ways we specifically learned that sentence. Any insertion
of 'me' into those sentences would have earned us a scolding.

Either you're mis-remembering what your third grade teacher said, or
you're entitled to a tuition refund from Pierce. Are you sure the
teacher wasn't just objecting to sentences such as "John and me took Jane
to dinner"? In *that* sentence, "I" is correct, not "me". But people
often overgeneralize that correction; instead of learning to use "I"
instead of "me" as a subject, they end up using "I" instead of "me" even
as an object.
--Gary

A quick rule of thumb, If you can remove the first part of the sentence,
and it still makes sense, you have the correct pronoun.

For example in the abve metioned sentence, "Jane took John and (I/me) to
dinner."

"Jane took I to dinner." or "Jane took me to dinner."

So in the sentence, the proper word is 'me', "Jane took John and me to
dinner."

or

"Jane and (I/me) went to dinner."

"I went to dinner." or "Me went to dinner."


That's the way I was taught it.

Funny how we're getting a grammer lesson in rec.aviation.piloting.

Hehe...