You and I versus You and me!!

confused when to use you and i, and when to use you and me. read this.

Enhance your writing for igcse writing exams.

Consider the following sentence: You and I should have lunch.

Is the correct form of this sentence You and I … or You and me …? This is a common source of confusion in English.

Fortunately, there’s an easy way to decide whether to use I or me in such sentences. All you have to do is drop the word you then try the sentence with I and me one at a time. For example:

I should have lunch.

Me should have lunch.

Clearly the preferred form in this case is I; thus, the original sentence was correct to use you and I.

Here’s another example: He’ll blame you and I. Drop the word you then try the sentence with I and me one at a time, like so:

He’ll blame I.

He’ll blame me.

You can see that the second of these is correct. This means that the original sentence should have been: He’ll blame you and me.

Easy.

On a related note, when using phrases such as you and me, you and I or them and us, it has traditionally been considered courteous to place the reference to yourself last. For example, we prefer:

He’ll ask you and me later.

over:

He’ll ask me and you later.

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