Use the pronoun “I” when the person speaking is doing the action, either alone or with someone else. Use the pronoun “me” when the person speaking is receiving the action of the verb in some way, either directly or indirectly.

Authors often ask whether they should write “taller than me” or “taller than I”? The quick answer is both are correct, but not everyone agrees that both are correct, and that’s the problem. Here’s the issue: the word “than” can be classified as either a conjunction or a preposition, and that’s the root of the debate.

The difference is that “He is taller than I” is grammatically correct. The word “he” is a subject pronoun, while “me” is an object pronoun. With “he is taller than I,” there is an implied “am”, so “I” becomes the subject of the verb am. “He is taller than I (am).”

Certainly common usage is on their side.” So my advice is to use the natural-sounding “than he is” or “than him,” and save “than he” for the most formal occasions. “Than him” is certainly more usual in conversation and is considered standard by many respected authorities.

Than I versus than me He is younger than me. He is younger than I. Answer: ‘I’ is more correct in formal English, but ‘me’ is acceptable in informal English and is increasingly used in formal English too. ‘I’ is more ‘correct’ because you’re comparing two subjects.

If this phrase is the subject, then it’s “Sally and I.” If it’s an object, then it’s “Sally and me.” Another way to keep them straight is to think about which first person plural pronoun you would use. If you would use “we,” then it’s “Sally and I;” if you would use “us,” then it’s “Sally and me.”

The rule here is very simple: the correct word is the one you’d use if there were no “Bob” involved — so “I went to the store” becomes “Bob and I went to the store,” and “She kissed me” becomes “She kissed Bob and me.”

In sentence a), Jenny and me/I are the subjects of the verb joined. Therefore, the subject pronoun, I, is considered correct. You will certainly hear native speakers say, “Jenny and me,” and it may be acceptable in spoken English, but most traditional grammarians and English teachers will disapprove.

It’s called a reflexive pronoun. For example, “I made myself breakfast” is correct but not “My friend and myself made breakfast.” But “My friend and I made ourselves breakfast” would be correct. To decide correct usage in a sentence like this: My friend and [“me” or “I”] went to lunch.

Both words are pronouns, but I is a subject pronoun while me is an object pronoun. So, in the sentence, “She and I went to the store,” the correct word to use would be I rather than me.

However to say “I and my sister” is incorrect as you are using the wrong “person” tense, “me and my sister” is also wrong, you could scrape by using “myself and my sister” although to be grammatically correct it should be “My sister and I”.

The rule of thumb is this — when you would normally say “I” if you were talking about yourself, you would instead say “my brother and I,” but when you would normally say “me” if you were talking about yourself, you would instead say “my brother and me.”

They are both correct, depending upon the context of the sentence. If the phrase is used as a subject, then it is “my wife and I”. Example: My wife and I are happy to meet you. If the phrase is used as an object, then it is “my wife and me”.

If it is a subject of a sentence, “my husband and I” should be used. “My husband and I went to the store.” If it is an objective clause, “my husband and me” is used. For this to be correct, it must be the object of a preposition, such as, “They gave the gift to my husband and me.”

Although “me and my family” is not incorrect, there is a convention of good manners that one should put the other person or people before oneself in a sentence.

“Me and her” is correct if it is the object of the verb (or object of a preposition): He gave one to me and her. He saw me and her together. Both “me” and “her” should be in the same case (objective).

So “he” and “I” are both the subjects. Sometimes we want to say, “Him and me will . . .” or “Him and I will . . . .” You can remember the correct pronouns by saying each pronoun alone in the sentence. It probably won’t sound right to you to say, “Him will . . .” or “Me will . . . .”