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Pedants' corner

Neither John nor I OR neither John nor me ????

29 replies

furcoatandnoknickers · 12/11/2007 11:30

Which one? The first sounds correct, but now I've said them to my self so many times, I sound...well... firstly like the queen and secondly a right nana.......Please do give the poor dyslexic girl help..

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Hassled · 12/11/2007 11:31

Neither John OR I.
I don't think you should use neither...nor. I wait to stand corrected.

Dinosaur · 12/11/2007 11:31

I think it's neither John nor I.

tissy · 12/11/2007 11:41

think :

John would do that

I would do that

Neither John nor I would do that.

You wouldn't say Me would do that, so it's I.

And you definitely DO say neither...nor!

furcoatandnoknickers · 12/11/2007 11:42

I know its either+or, so I think it must be neither+nor (for the negative)...but is it I or me? Thank you for responding...anyone else?

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Dinosaur · 12/11/2007 11:43

It's I.

LadyOfWaffle · 12/11/2007 11:44

I

castille · 12/11/2007 11:44

Definitely I.

tissy · 12/11/2007 11:44

Definitely I.

Did you reead my post ?

RosaTransylvania · 12/11/2007 11:45

Tissy is absolutely right.

Desiderata · 12/11/2007 11:48

I would say 'neither myself or John'.

That's just because to me, it sounds better.

tissy · 12/11/2007 11:50

neither ....nor is correct

would you really say, "Myself would go shopping"?

lulu25 · 12/11/2007 11:51

thanks you beat me to it re "myself"

MaryAnnSingleton · 12/11/2007 11:51

it's neither nor and either or

tissy · 12/11/2007 11:52

lulu, it's one of my pet hates!

MaryAnnSingleton · 12/11/2007 11:52

can I just say how much I hate the use of 'yourself' as in 'that's £25 to yourself' when being quoted a price

castille · 12/11/2007 11:53

No, please, NOT myself! Lulu listen to Tissy

castille · 12/11/2007 11:54

sorry, not lulu, Desiderata!

furcoatandnoknickers · 13/11/2007 11:28

oh god minor dc crisis, so sorry not to say thank you last night.

A big thank you to all who posted.

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StealthPolarBear · 13/11/2007 11:32

surely it depends on the sentence

"Neither John nor I wanted to go shopping"
"She didn't speak to neither John nor me"

Apart from the 2nd sentence being clumsy, surely these are right? In the 1st you are the subjects, in the 2nd the objects of the sentence.

MsHighwater · 14/11/2007 23:23

It does depend on the sentence.

"Neither John nor I like Katy Melua"
"Katy Melua sounds good to neither John nor me"

Neither goes with nor.

BTW, StealthPolarBear, I would say "She didn't speak to either John or me" or you could say "She spoke to neither John nor me".

StealthPolarBear · 17/11/2007 08:40

Well it depends!!! Actually my double negative was intentional

aDadGoneMad · 17/11/2007 08:46

Stealth and MsHighwater have got it.

It depends on the rest of the sentence and whether "neither Jon nor I/me" is the subject or object of the main verb.

As a stand alone "Neither Jon nor I", and with Neither being capitalised, it is right to assume it is the subject of the clause, therefore "I" is correct.

StealthPolarBear · 17/11/2007 08:46
GodzillasBumcheek · 17/11/2007 08:49

In RL you lot would sound pretty posh i think...

This coming from someone who tries to write using the same grammatical rules. And has a daughter who is told she sounds 'posh' at school, due to my reading stories in a toffy accent! Well, we do live in a peasant area, lol. Gawd bless the poor little mites.

MsHighwater · 18/11/2007 22:02

Can I just say that, in Pedants' Corner, I think I've found my spiritual home!

(and I used to be accused of talking "posh" when I was at school - AND I try to TEXT with correct grammar and punctuation!)

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