It's Never Between You and I!

You know, there is a part of me that's really super afraid to write this blog. When you point out English grammar stuff, or when you say you've been an English teacher, people are either afraid that you're going to correct them or they think that you never ever make a grammatical mistake. I'm full of grammatical mistakes, and mistakes in general. But the point is that I know what's correct. Do you?

This morning, I was talking to a friend of mine, a wonderful person whom I met in an English class. During the course of conversation, she said something about "for him and I." I said nothing, of course, and I'm guessing that this guffaw is so prevalent in our society because it's been on television. I've heard college graduates say it. It's ubiquitous. But it ain't right. Never use a subject pronoun, such as "I," after a preposition, in this case, "for." Never ever. No matter who else does it. It seems to me as though a Journey song from the eighties used this ungrammatical thing to make a song rhyme. Rhyme it did, but it also set off a long line of people who now say such this as "against him and I" when they would never ever say "against I." Think, people, think!

Subject pronouns are used in the subject of the sentence, which is often, though not always, before the verb: I, she, he, and they are subject pronouns.

Object pronouns are used in the predicate part of the sentence, i.e., the part that holds the verb: Me, her, him, and them are subject pronouns.