"I" or "me"?

[ngoc_lan]

I'm confused with this. Please help.

There are 3 members in my family: my dad, my mom and I/me

It is he/him who came into the class

I or me, he or him is correct?

Please help me to understand it

Thank you

[HanibalII]

I'm confused with this. Please help.

There are 3 members in my family: my dad, my mom and I/me

It is he/him who came into the class

I or me, he or him is correct?

Please help me to understand it

Thank you

Personally, I would say

'There are three members in my family: myself, my dad and my mum.

I believe it's similar to saying 'myself and John'

'it is he/him who came into the class' I believe this is incorrect.

it should be said, 'he came into the class'.




Not a teacher...Yet

[ngoc_lan]

Those sentences are all in the TOEFL CBT Prep Guide.

But I've lost the keys.

Your answer is not convincing to me. But thanks anyway!

Someone please help!

[bhaisahab]

"There are three of us, John, Fred and I" this is correct. "There are three of us, John, Fred and me" this is acceptable.
"It is he/him who came into the class" this is not a very natural utterance. In response to the question "Who came into the class?" the most natural responses would be "It was him" or "He did".

[ngoc_lan]

thank you very much

[Rover_KE]

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[konungursvia]

"It is he who..." is correct, never him.

[Jiayun]

But B said in the previous post that "it was him" .... I am lost .....

"It is he who..." is correct, never him.

[5jj]

But B said in the previous post that "it was him" .... I am lost .....

bhai said, my emphasis added, "It is he/him who came into the class" this is not a very natural utterance. In response to the question "Who came into the class?" the most natural responses would be "It was him" or "He did".

If you insist on using the not very natural form, then 'it is he who' is the form that some say is the only correct one.

[emsr2d2]

It is important to understand the difference between "not very natural" and "incorrect". If something is actually incorrect, we will say so. If it is grammatically correct but would sound (to a native's ears) rather odd, wordy, clunky or, in many cases, simply like it is being said by a non-native who has learnt a particular construction and is using it, then we will probably say that it doesn't sound "natural".