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And it always you and me
And it always you and me




and it always you and me

Now, in formal standard written English, subjects of verbs must be in subjective form, conjoined or not, leading to generations of schoolmarms correcting their students:Īnd the famous musical about an excruciatingly correct teacher of English: What happens is as pronouns in conjoined subjects get further and further from the verb, the impulse to change the default form into the subject form is weaker, and in informal contexts, is simply not followed.

and it always you and me

This is the form of the pronoun used when there is no verb: This happens because what linguists would call the “unmarked” or standard, basic form for pronouns turns out to be the objective form- me, him, her, them, and the like. You never hear this usage if the subject is not conjoined that is, no native speaker would say “me went for some ice cream” but “me and my friends went for some ice cream” is actually quite a common usage produced by native speakers of all kinds. There is a tendency in informal speech and writing to use object pronouns when conjoined with other nouns or pronouns, even if serving as the subject of a verb.






And it always you and me