"Have you guys been waiting long?" asked Leonie, as she took off her jacket and hung it over the back of a chair. "Babs and me walked."This was another moment that I really enjoyed because, like my grandmother (Nana) before me, I always notice when people, especially people on television, get this wrong. Of course usually I see the opposite problem. It happened in an episode of Little House Michael and I saw earlier tonight. Laura asked her mother, "Do you want Albert and I to go for a walk?"
Matthew thought: why can't people distinguish between nominative and accusative any more? He wanted to say to Leonie: "Would you say me walked? (253)"
Thursday, February 7, 2008
Another Exerpt from *Love Over Scotland,* this one concerning grammar
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Would you mind telling me what was wrong with Laura's question? I am grammatically challenged :)
shelly g
You know, I have trouble remembering what nominative and accusative are, even though I have a grammar interest. I'd have to look those up. Affect vs. effect, I can't remember at all.
Laura should, grammatically, have said "Do you want Albert and me to go for a walk?" You wouldn't say "Do you want I to go for a walk?" That's how I always remember it. It's a difference between subject and direct object. "You" is the subject of the sentence, "want" is the verb, and "me" is a direct object.
Linguistically she can say whatever she likes, one of my brothers would point out.
People who don't know the rule, but want to sound like they do, always default to the I position.
It's funny, I wasn't at all interested in grammar in highschool. End grammar lesson.
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