4.7.12 More from the NNN Awards

kaiweathers “#adamlambert but why is his complexion sooo nice though!?”
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Taken at Key Club

Going to take my insomnia as an occasion to be the grammar police and I'm not judging because I literally didn't know the rule about "I and me" until I was in college. It is not taught in the U.S. as readily as the "i-before-e rule," (which, of course has a lot of exceptions) and I just don't get why. It's such a simple rule and yet no one seems to know it. Adam uses the wrong word all the time, as does Terrance, and most of the musicians tweeting from L.A. Actually see I used incorrectly in 50 tweets a week by people who seem to be wanting to phrase what they're saying properly. I can relate; I used to be confused by same thing.

Soooo, since we have a lot of people here w English as their second or third language and if you were taught the proper rule, you might think, "Why do all these people use I when they should be saying me?" It's because for some reason, we are not taught this in much of our standard grammar. (At least I wasn't, and obviously a lot of others weren't either, since we see the error constantly.)

The rule for knowing when to say I or me, is: take the other person out of the sentence!!

Robert Marvin is thanking Skylar for helping him and Charles on the track. If we take Charles out of the situation, Robert is saying, "Thank you for helping I on the track." Well, we know that's wrong. He would say, "Thank you for helping me on the track." It's the same regardless if there are two or a hundred more people mentioned in the sentence.

So anytime you're uncertain how to phrase something when referring to yourself and others, take the other people out of the sentence and you have your answer /grammar police

He is soooo beautiful with only little make up