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Date Posted: 17:27:33 08/19/08 Tue GMT-5
Author: Lori
Author Host/IP: S0106001a70540c2c.cg.shawcable.net / 68.145.251.17
Subject: Re: Grammatical conundrum: case with subjunctive (I think)
In reply to: Lori 's message, "Re: Grammatical conundrum: case with subjunctive (I think)" on 17:26:14 08/19/08 Tue GMT-5

"If it were just John and me," is the way I'd probably go.

Lori

>Well, I don't know all the technical terminology for
>this stuff, but take away the "John and" and you have
>"The subject of the discussion was I". That doesn't
>work.
>
>How about saying, "They talked about John and me." ?
>
>Lori
>
>>If you are using a normal copula verb, you can write a
>>sentence like "The subject of the discussion was John
>>and I." "I" in this case being the subject of the
>>verb.
>>
>>But, in a sentence like "If it were just John and __
>>that I had to consider..." what case of "I" is
>>appropriate. I think it's "I" because the verb is
>>still "were" but I'm not sure that "me" isn't correct.
>>
>>Please let I know what me should uses here.

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