- Me and Larry had a meeting today.
- Larry and me had a meeting today.
- I and Larry had a meeting today.
- Larry and I had a meeting today.
I know the third one is wrong (because it doesn't sound right). Which of the rest have the correct grammar?
Usage: writing a mail to a third person telling him this.
Answer
The traditionally correct sentence is "Larry and I had a meeting today". To know whether to use the nominative case ("I") or accusative ("me"), remove "Larry": you'd say "I had a meeting", not "Me had a meeting".
These days, especially in informal usage, "Larry and me had a meeting today" is also common.
(There's also another traditional English rule—or just politeness—of naming the first person last, so you name Larry before naming yourself.)
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