Thursday, March 19, 2015

word order - Should personal pronouns always be placed at the end of a list?








Today I made a post on Facebook in which I copied a conversation from somewhere else. To preface my post, I wrote:




A conversation between me and John:




There were a number of comments on my use of pronouns, but the one I am most interested in was on the word order. One commentator said that the personal pronoun must always come last. I admit that I was raised to always use the personal pronoun last and simply did not type what I felt was correct, but I honestly don't know whether what I was raised with was correct. So,



Should you always place the personal pronoun last in a list? If so, why?

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