Ilki
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- Dec 5, 2011
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- English
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- England
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- England
May I humbly submit my tuppence?
Between is a preposition, right? Prepositional complements take the objective (accusative case), and not the nominative case.
Between [you and he] :cross:
between [you and I] :cross:
between [you and me] :tick:
Is it not as simple as that?
If between you and I is okay, we have to do two things:
Either we have to revise the lexical category of "between" (no one did this so far, as far as I know),
or we have to revise the case assignment rule governing the form of the prep complement (no one did this so far, as far as I know).
Between is a preposition, right? Prepositional complements take the objective (accusative case), and not the nominative case.
Between [you and he] :cross:
between [you and I] :cross:
between [you and me] :tick:
Is it not as simple as that?
If between you and I is okay, we have to do two things:
Either we have to revise the lexical category of "between" (no one did this so far, as far as I know),
or we have to revise the case assignment rule governing the form of the prep complement (no one did this so far, as far as I know).