st wwi? 353

[LeoMunro]

"To celebrate, he has taken Hungry Friend and I for a country ride."

Is such a sentence acceptable or not? I wonder what Quizmonster thinks!

Thanks for your comments ABers and do please have a nice week-end.

[BigMac]

Delete "Hungry Friend and" and see if the sentence still makes sense and/or sounds right. That's your answer.

You just can't trust the broadsheets, any more than you can believe the tabloids....

[LeoMunro]

Many thanks BM -my thoughts exactly. But there's always a second opinion regarding pedantic souls like us.

And if one does a bit of a toot - no correspondence will be etc., etc.

Ah well! Thanks again. Lm.

[bernardo]

AAAAAAAGHHHH!!!!
no!
AAAAAAAGHHHH!!!!

[Quizmonster]

Since you refer to me directly, Leo, I can but concur with BigMac and, clearly, Bernardo. Only the objective form of the pronoun is acceptable here...ie 'me'.
'Between you and I' is another - similar - bugbear of mine. Nobody, for example, would consider saying 'Between she and we'. Would they???

[LeoMunro]

Thanks to you too Bernardo amd QM. Nice to know that I�m not the only one who finds errors in the ST and has an AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH attack?

Well done all! Do have a nice week-end everyone.

[Don Quixote]

I think there is a simple rule here ... leave out the other person and what would you say? In this case "... to celebrate he has taken (hungry friend and ) me for a country ride". Also, things such as "he is coming to stay with (John and) me". "(Marcus and) I went to the cinema". I know English is a hard language to learn ... but indigenous speakers should be able to do better than the Sunday Times Travel Quiz!

[LeoMunro]

Thanks DQ for your support..

I, perhaps, go further, by suggesting that the Sunday Times should use much better English than many indigenous speakers.

But then again, who's perfekt?