>>>SYNTAX POLICE:
>>>... It was also funny to see John and I in complete agreement.
>>>
>>>It was also funny to see John and me in complete agreement.
>>>
>>>Sorry - bugbear of mine! :-)
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>>Just to play devil's advocate ( pays better than prosecutor ) if one considers "John and I in complete agreement" to be a noun clause defining a state or condition " John and I (being) in complete agreement " then the objective case wouldn't really be correct. Without the implied "being" or the "in complete agreement", of course, it's John and me he'd be talking about ( oops, a preposition is a bad word to end a sentence with )
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>Er ... well ... y'n'y'errrr ... what?
It sounds better after a couple of pints ...
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
