So who, as a child, wasn't corrected when saying, "Can me and Jenny go to the corner store?"If the adult who answered the question was worth his or her salt, he quickly corrected you by saying, "Jenny and I..." to which you replied, "Can Jenny and I go to the corner store?"
My two youngest daughters are nearly 14 and 15 years old. They get this sentence right about half the time, in spite of many years of grammar training and correction, by me, a one-time English major.
But the big victory this year has been NOT ending a sentence with a preposition. Not only do they use this part of grammar properly, they correct one another, and even their friends (kindly, and tongue in cheek, but correcting just the same.)
In this vein, I just came across a wonderful Churchill quote that I had to share:
"From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. "
Classic Churchill. :)
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1 comments:
I got my kiddos to get this correct by having them leave out their friend.
I want to go to the store.
Jenny and I want to go to the store.
great blog
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