Reply to: English Grammar

[Gibbon]

You may laugh, but actually it's a trick to keep you girls panting with lust!

[Halo Jones]

With 'me' coming before 'the missus'

(Ain't that the truth, girls?)

[ZARDOZ]

What is wrong with the following?

'A kind friend has invited my wife and I to dinner'

He can't cook?

[thunderlizard]

I was mildly amused by something on BBC news website this morning (but since corrected):
"...her mother fell pregnant with a new partner".

[rhubarb]

It doesn't mean you are you thick.

If you would use 'us' in a sentence use 'wife and me' if you would use 'we' in a sentence use 'wife and I'.

Oh I'm liking that one! Thank you

[Gibbon]

With 'me' coming before 'the missus'

(Ain't that the truth, girls?)

And how long do you think we can flick our tongue for?
Not the whole of Bolero that's for sure!

[Doggy Styles]

Because 'I' is the nominative singular form of the pronoun and the object of a verb needs to be the accusative form which is 'me'.

But you would say:

The wife and I invited a friend to dinner.

Whose wife?

[OwlHoot]

What is wrong with the following?

'A kind friend has invited my wife and I to dinner'

That's pretty simple - The one that always gets me is the distinction between "due to" and "owing to".

(I'd never actually use "owing to", any more than I'd ever say "I/we shall", as these sound precious and pedantic. But it would be nice to know when "owing to" would be correct.)

[Gibbon]

thank you, but that was white noise
I'll just stay thick.

It doesn't mean you are you thick.

If you would use 'us' in a sentence use 'wife and me' if you would use 'we' in a sentence use 'wife and I'.

[SueEllen]

With 'me' coming before 'the missus'

(Ain't that the truth, girls?)

He's more likely to use the word "we" simply because it's easier.

[original PM]

With 'me' coming before 'the missus'

(Ain't that the truth, girls?)

how rude!!!

but nope cos I am a gent......

[Doggy Styles]

So thats a general rule ?

Yes.

[cojak]

You would use the informal - "me and the missus" cos you aren't a dick.

With 'me' coming before 'the missus'

(Ain't that the truth, girls?)

[mudskipper]

Absoutely - no need to worry about objects and subjects - just remove the "whoever and" or the "and whoever" from the sentence and you'll be grand.

That's what me think anyway.

[SueEllen]

thank you, but that was white noise
I'll just stay thick.

To be fair if you start learning a European foreign language you will learn all your grammar as you have no choice if you want to construct sentences correctly.

Edited: Oh I give up.