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TSI Writing: "I" vs. "Me" 9 Views


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Select the best version of the italicized part of the sentence. If you think the original sentence is best, choose the first answer.

Between you and I, the food at that restaurant was not worth the price.


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Okay see Writing Editing shmoop er's Here we go Last

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one in the section between you and i The food

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at the restaurant was not worth the price There's something

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wrong here Rotten in denmark this is an age old

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stumper for high school kids we could talk about i

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versus me for days but here's the short version the

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pronoun i is in the nominative case naming case and

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can only be used in this subject of a sentence

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Like i ran i walked i swam i failed pronin

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i did that in that order the pronoun phrase between

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you and i begins with a proposition and must be

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in the objective case like it's done to it or

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to the object so we can correct that error by

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using the pronoun me so it's between you and me

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the food at the restaurant was not worth the price

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Got it all right Well since the subject of the

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sentences the food the restaurant i doesn't work here So

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get rid of egg and using a possessive pronoun makes

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the first part of the sentence in complete Like between

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you and my what my legs are never never choose

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An answer that changes the meaning of a sentence That's 00:01:10.556 --> [endTime] deke way are smoked

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