Hello super motivated English students!
Para refrescar un poco la memoria, en inglés tenemos los pronombres sujeto (I, you, he, she, it, we, you, they) y los pronombres objeto (me, you, him, her, it, us, you, them). Siempre que usamos ‘I’ o ‘me’, nos estamos refiriendo a la primera persona del singular.
Parece de cajón saber cómo utilizar los pronombres ‘me’ & ‘I’ ¿verdad?, pero por algún motivo hasta los nativos a veces tienen dudas sobre cómo usarlos. Vamos a ver algunos ejemplos e intentar aclararlas.
Ready for another lesson? Let’s begin! 🙂
I: significa ‘yo’.
Hace la función de pronombre sujeto (aquel que realiza la acción del verbo). Suele ir delante del verbo principal.
Correcto | You and I need to have a word with the teacher.
Incorrecto |You and me need to have a word with the teacher.
En este caso el sujeto somos tú y yo.
Me: significa ‘yo’, ‘me’, ‘mí’.
Hace la función de pronombre objeto (aquel sobre el que recae la acción del verbo). Suele colocarse después del verbo principal.
Correcto | The teacher needs to have a word with you and me.
Incorrecto | The teacher needs to have a word with you and I.
En este caso el sujeto es el profesor/a.
Veamos algunas excepciones:
👉 Cuando se trata de una oración con una sola palabra, usamos el pronombre objeto:
Correcto | Does anybody know the answer? Me!
Incorrecto| Does anybody know the answer? I. Sería correcto si lo acompañas con el verbo: ‘I do’ (know the answer).
👉 Después del verbo ‘to be’:
Correcto | Who’s calling? It’s me.
Incorrecto| Who’s calling? It’s I.
Te hemos preparado un mini test para que sigas practicando. Enjoy!
- My mother-in-law is staying with Jane and ___ this weekend.
- Mary and ___ are going to be a bit late for class today.
- The doctor gave James and ___ a prescription for some strong medicine.
- My dog and ___ got locked outside the house.
- Don’t tell my boss that you and ___ are in a relationship or it’s over!
- Both my sister and ___ are left handed.
- Ryan has invited Graham, Susan and ___ to his wedding this summer.
- You and ___ should spend more time together.
- You should spend more time with David and ___
- John hates you and ___
¡Aquí debajo tienes las respuestas!
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There you go! 👀
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I didn’t get the 5 answer. The boss wouldn’t be the subject and thr couple the object (you and me)?
Thank you
18 abril 2018 | 12:15 pm
For Karen:
Amigos ingleses correct me if I’m wrong, but how I see it, is that in the sentence: «Don’t tell my boss that you and I are in a relationship or it’s over», the correct form is «you and I» and not «you and me» because you can consider that from the word «that», it is a new sentence (a sentence within a sentence, if you like), so «you and I» would be the subject of this new sentence, not a pronoun. Hope it is clear! 🙂
18 abril 2018 | 3:10 pm
Karen, «boss» can’t never be the subject in any of the two sentences and by that I mean Yo misma is right, it’s like there were two sentences. WHO (subject) isn’t supposed to tell WHAT (direct object) to WHOM (indirect object)? The boss? Nope. «You» is; implicitly though. In here, ‘that’ serves as a subordinate conjuction introducing the dependent clause, specifically a declarative content clause, which is embedded within the main clause, a.k.a matrix clause, which acts on its own, thus the subject rule applies, being «you and I».
19 abril 2018 | 1:53 am
That’s right! Sorry, it was a tricky one! Thanks for your help 🙂
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11 febrero 2019 | 3:59 am
Me pueden decir cuál es la diferencia entre you y they???
24 junio 2019 | 11:08 pm