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portrait of me and my father

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Spwrinkle
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of my father and me

no, it's not "my father and i"

"of" is a preposition

the pronoun which follows it would be the OBJECT of the preposition

"I" is a subject, not an object

widely popular misuse of grammar which really irks me



O: my father and I went to the zoo

X: here is a picture of my father and I

O: here is a picture of my father and me
Image size
2939x2219px 897.54 KB
Make
Canon
Model
Canon EOS 400D DIGITAL
Shutter Speed
1/25 second
Aperture
F/1.8
Focal Length
50 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
May 14, 2007, 4:00:39 PM
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License
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Ramzea
The way I remember which word to use is by saying the two sentences seperate first. Take this sentence as an example:

"My father and I are going fishing."

I'd break it down first into "My father is going fishing." and "I am going fishing." If, at first, I thought "Me and my father are going fishing." then I would have following that thought with "Me am going fishing." which is clearly incorrect.

I don't know if this is always correct but it saves me most of the time. :x

Oh! and I love your artwork~ I'm going through your entire gallery right now. You can probably guess where I was linked from. xD