Language problem

[Shelter]

Please I have a question for help to all guys here whose native language is English.

What is correct:

I and my friends ~X(
or
Me and my friends? :thinking:
or both?

Please be a good teacher! Thank you.

 

[Ioanna]

I and a friend
Me and my friends.

 

[yoyo888]

You usually say "Me and My Friends"

 

[mattla]

You could also use "My friends and I"

 

[tonka]

I is a subject pronoun.
Me is an object pronoun.
So if you are the actor in a sentence, use I.
If you are acted upon, use me.

I banged the out of the hot guy across the street.
The hot guy across the street banged the out of me.

Spoken English is more casual, so you can bend the rules. But those are the rules.

 

[dargelos]

If there is a single friend then 'me and my friend' is ok.
With friends in the plural then I much prefer mattla's ordering, it's 'my friends and I' because the several 'friends' have a greater weight than the single 'I'

 

[xenos]

I agree with tonka on this. Me is never correct as a subject pronoun even though you hear it used that way much too frequently. Consider this sentence "Me and my friend when to the movies." Take out the friend and you get " Me went to the movies." That sounds awkward at best and barely literate at worst.

I'll stick with what I was taught at school, namely, 'My friend(s) and I went to the movies." As a matter of courtesy you always put the other person(s) first and yourself last. "My friend(s) and I", never "I and my friend(s)."

 

[zortek]

the gramatically correct version is "my friends and i"

common usage is "me and my friends"

both are acceptable, but technically the correct is "my friends and i"




Edit : the same applies to singular use "friend" as well as the plural "friends"

 

[Shelter]

Thank you guys for your grammar lessons.

You know, sometimes I'm writing or speaking something and suddenly I'm very uncertain about what I have written or spoken. I think I'm good in English and never ever I would get lost in an English spoken country. But nevertheless as I said before - I'm uncertain. And this question suddenly came up to me and my BF. So once more many thanks for your help.

And if I will make in the future again grammar mistakes please let me know them, I would be happy to learn more or/and better.

Thank you all.

 

[Shelter]

And sure I or ME not in the first place! Sorry for this mistake.
I have to know that - we have in Germany a saying that applies: Der Esel nennt sich immer zuerst! (The donkey is calling himself always at first place) -

 

[trencherman]

Native speakers of English whether American or British English are very lenient and casual about how foreigners speak their language, even more so are the Italians. The French you encounter though as a tourist are rude and mean. I dropped the ’s’ once in cassis and the pharmacist serving me almost bit off my head.

 

[gb2000ie]

Native speakers of English whether American or British English are very lenient and casual about how foreigners speak their language, even more so are the Italians. The French you encounter though as a tourist are rude and mean. I dropped the ’s’ once in cassis and the pharmacist serving me almost bit off my head.

My first thought is that most supposedly native English speakers have worse grammar than many non-native English speakers

My second thought is that something half-way between the French and Itallian attitudes would be ideal - politely correct foreigners' mistakes so they learn, but don't be a dick about it!

B.

 

[W!nston]

Grammar in American English is pretty much a lost cause. If you live where I live and shop where I shop you'll agree, lol. Not just grammar but pronunciation is an obsolete concept.

New slang is replacing the old slang more each day. I'm not talking about 'text speak' although that is part of it. I'm talking about the lack of a proper educational foundation in English.

When I'm in a check-out line I hear people talking but it's not the same language I learned, lol. I only understand them because I've absorbed enough to catch phrases or words.

I understand non-English speakers online as well or better than my neighbors )