Halloween version

Blurry

Saw this in a benefits chat window today:

"The ownership is on you" to <blah blah>.

I googled it, and apparently 5160 other people have used the phrase.

I dislike when people say "he and I" in the cases when they're supposed to say "him and me".
For instance: And you what? Went golfing? The sentence is either incomplete or the "I" doesn't belong there. She can't go with I, she can go with me.

Jim and I, however, went to the movies with her (and not "with she").

I'm not usually a grammar nit (as you can tell by my posts), but this mistake is common and it's like people are purposely saying something they know sounds bad because they think it's better grammar. It's a mistake they'd never make unless trying (and failing) to sound better educated or something.

I always thought Jim and I was correct in both cases.

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The reason we have both object and subject forms of pronouns is for those two cases.

Lol. Is that really an error? Wouldn't surprise me. Like I said, the fact that I'm not a grammar nit is evident in my posts

Some time though, I plan to break out my old Bedford Handbook and brush up. I used to know all the little rules when I had to in high school.

Yeah, it's nitty obviously (perfect for this thread), but the simple answer is that "come" or "came" (as opposed to "go" and "went") usually indicates motion towards the speaker. So "She went to the movies with Jim" but "She came to the movies with Jim and me".

It's a little more complicated than that - come/came actually indicates movement towards some central, important figure, however defined. The OED puts it like this:

So for instance "I will go to your party" might be technically correct in an ultranit universe, but usually we say "I will come to your party", emphasising the centrality of the party organiser.

Similarly we would say "The students went to their teacher to ask a question". But Matthew 18:1 "At that time the disciples came to Jesus and asked, "Who, then, is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?". Here the centrality and importance of Jesus in the narrative is emphasised.

But your post 4733 implied that the verb form affects the pronoun form. It does not. You don't use the subjective pronoun "I" as an object of the preposition "with" in either case.

Didn't mean that to be the implication. I was just correcting everything that was wrong with the quoted sentence.

My mistake.

Other than the comma splice and the typo on you/your, what's wrong with the Halloween poster?

They should be hoping for more than one man to attend, I would think.

Ah, missed it.

Well, I missed the you/your on first reading, so we're even

The quotes around Miss Piggy are also superfluous. Unless they're trying to imply that it isn't the real Miss Piggy.

The worst part about all this is that it's a poster for a library event!

What's the best iOS app for vocabulary building and brushing up on grammar?

FYP.

s/b "There are many".

Less/more is for measured amounts e.g. Fewer/more is for discrete numbers of things. Here is a funny misuse from a web site. This site tracks sports league results, with tiebreakers listed in order. Each tiebreaker heading has a subheading for more detail. The people writing the subheading couldn't think of anything useful to put in the subheading, so they repeated the heading.... sort of.

Least Goals Allowed
Fewest goals allowed

Does this bug anyone?

"Your call is answered in the order it is received."

A call can't be in order. You can say "calls are answered in the order received."* For there to be an order, there must be multiple things.

*Actually it would normally be "calls are answered in the order they are received", but I don't actually know if "they" is used correctly there :-)

Yes, that may be even better, but "a lot" is used for both countable and uncountable items, so it isn't incorrect, just less formal.