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Originally Posted by Iowa_Flames_Fan
My pet peeve is pronouns.
You would never say “for I”, so why do people think it’s correct to say “for Steve and I”?!? It makes my ears bleed.
The other one people have no idea how to use is “myself.” It’s the reflexive form, meaning you’re performing an action and you are also the subject. But people are always trying to get me to give something to themselves… like “when you’re finished with your exam, you can hand that in to Josh, or to myself…”
That one drives me nuts. I always want to respond with “actually, I can’t. YOU can give something to yourself, but for me that’s grammatically impossible. I can only give it to YOU.”
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Hmm. My father was very strict about grammar when we were kids, and every time we'd say something like, "
Me and Mike are going to the store" he'd always cut us off and say, "
Who's going to the store?" and keep repeating until we corrected ourselves to say "
Mike and I are going to the store."