On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 08:30:32PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote: > On 2020-12-24 16:19, Rick Moen wrote: > > > > Another such an example is > > > John and me went swimming. > > > Here 'and' serves as a preposition. > > > > I'm not sure where the location is, where 'and' fails to be a > > conjunction when used between two nouns in that fashion, but I'm > > curious what colour the sky is, there. > > But if "and" is a conjunction in this sentence pattern, the nouns or > pronouns it joins together form the subject, and so they ought to be in > the nominative, i.e. "John and I". I understood that to be Hendrik's > point, even if he didn't express it very clearly (perhaps adding some > irony to the thread).
Yes, that's true in modern educated English. -- hendrik > > -- > Ian > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
