Since I’ve been seeing this mistake all over the place lately, not just online, but when people speak as well, I’m going to share a tip on how I remember when to use I vs. Me in a sentence.
Just remove the other person from the sentence and see if it still makes sense. That’s it.
Examples:
“Joe and I went to the store” becomes “I went to the store.”
“I can’t believe he gave Joe and me such a good discount” becomes “I can’t believe he gave me such a good discount.” It wouldn’t make sense to use I in that sentence because then you’d be saying “I can’t believe he gave I such a good discount.”
Try it next time you’re forming a sentence and let me know if it works for you. I did not research this method online because I wanted to hear opinions on it first, so feel free to comment.
Also, if someone wants to offer tips on the proper way to use punctuation in conjunction with quotation marks, please do, because I probably used them incorrectly in this post. It has always been one of my weak points grammatically.
Thank you. This is one of my BIGGEST pet peeves. Both of my managers make this mistake all the time in person and in emails. “Turn the form in to S— or I.” Really? It drives me up a wall. I see it online a lot too, often by people who pride themselves in being paid writers.
I think your use of quotation marks looks okay.
P.S. I’ve been called “The Grammar Nazi” at work.