Say this is a caption to a photograph:
1 "Me and my friend in Paris"
OR
2 "My friend and I in Paris"
I used the first example but someone told me that I had attrocious grammar and that she couldn't believe I'd made such a mistake. I know this is pretty basic Englishgrammar knowledge but I was hoping for some clarification. Who is correct?
Update:And yes, "[this is a photo of] me and my friend in Paris" was what I was aiming for, but I didn't have enough space.
Update 3:Oh and I thought the rule is: if you take away "the friend" that it should read with essentially the same meaning. Like "me in Paris" makes sense, not "I in Paris"....?
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Since you didn't use a sentence, it doesn't matter. (This is a photo of) Me and my friend in Paris. Or, (This is) My husband and I on vacation.
I wouldn't trust anyone who says another person has atrocious grammar. Someone like that has obviously atrocious manners. It's usually someone who thinks "...and I" is always correct that gives out the worst grammar advice.
She was wrong. Actually, either of you could be right, depending on the context in which you meant it (but she was not only wrong, but rude). Both captions are just phrases. You could have meant "This is a photo of me and my friend in Paris," which is correct. In the second sentence, if you meant "This is a photo of my friend and I in Paris," that would be an example of atrocious grammar. If you meant it to be "My friend and I are in Paris," that would be correct grammar.
I actually switched English professors once after seeing a caption like the second one on her class website: "My husband and I in front of our house." I didn't want to take a chance on having an English teacher with atrocious grammar--in case she meant "This is a photo of my husband and I." In fact, I've read about this same disagreement about photo captions a number of times.
And putting yourself last is just a convention, not a rule; I think "Me and my friend in Paris" sounds better than "My friend and me in Paris," but both are correct.
Edit: I hope she wasn't the friend in Paris with you. If so, you could always change the caption to "Me and my grammatically challenged friend in Paris." But I guess that would be rude.
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Me and my friend in Paris -- Correct
My friend and I in Paris -- Wrong
How to check? Take out the word my, friend, & and.
Does it make sense when you say
Me in Paris -or-
I in Paris?
Definitely the former.
Your friend is right! Let me explain...
The verb in this sentence is "in". That's what really matters. You only have to remember this: The word "I" ALWAYS comes before and the word "me" ALWAYS comes after when talking about more than one person. If you refer to you and your friend before the verb, you always put your friend first and yourself at the end, with "I". If it's after the verb, you put yourself first with "me". Example:
"My friend and I went to Paris." Is correct, because it's before the verb.
"This is when we went to Paris, just me and my friend." Is correct, because it's after the verb.
Hope I helped!
my friend and i in paris sounds good
"My friend and I in Paris" u always put the other person first and then urself..
attrocious grammer??? please, ppl speak like that all the time..those ppl that told u that are TRIPPEN!
"My friend and I" is most proper.