Krudler to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agoWhat is something that was explained to you wrong such that you could never understand it, and you received a clarifying explanation that finally made sense?message-square35fedilinkarrow-up176arrow-down12
arrow-up174arrow-down1message-squareWhat is something that was explained to you wrong such that you could never understand it, and you received a clarifying explanation that finally made sense?Krudler to [Outdated, please look at pinned post] Casual Conversation@lemmy.worldEnglish • 1 year agomessage-square35fedilink
minus-square@intensely_human@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglish9•1 year agoHe : Who Him : Whom He gave me the ball. Who gave me the ball? I gave the ball to him. To whom did I give the ball?
minus-squareKrudlerOPlinkfedilinkEnglish5•edit-21 year ago“Jeff and me went shopping” Vs “Jeff and I went shopping” If you can take Jeff out and it sounds right then it’s grammatically correct. For example you wouldn’t say “me went shopping”. “That looks fake to Jeff and me” “That looks fake to Jeff and I” In that case you wouldn’t say “that looks fake to I”. I never understood this until a technical writer I worked with made it so plain one day. Edit: formatting
He : Who
Him : Whom
He gave me the ball. Who gave me the ball?
I gave the ball to him. To whom did I give the ball?
“Jeff and me went shopping”
Vs
“Jeff and I went shopping”
If you can take Jeff out and it sounds right then it’s grammatically correct. For example you wouldn’t say “me went shopping”.
“That looks fake to Jeff and me”
“That looks fake to Jeff and I”
In that case you wouldn’t say “that looks fake to I”.
I never understood this until a technical writer I worked with made it so plain one day.
Edit: formatting