Katie Couric and I share a grammar pet peeve. She said she is annoyed
when people use bad grammar such as, "He really doesn't like Suzie and
I." The sentence should be "He really doesn't like Suzie and me."
"Me" is one of the objects and not the subject.
Sometimes an object pronoun is used instead of a subject pronoun. For example, I have often heard, "Me and him are going to the store." The sentence should be, "He and I are going to the store."
According to A Practical English Grammar by A.J. Thomson and A.V. Martinet (Oxford University Press) pp38-39, Subject pronouns such as "I", "he" and "she" can be subjects of the verb. Object pronouns such as "me" and "him" are used when the pronoun is a direct or indirect object of the verb.
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