In our sentence, the predicate is the verb plus the object — chased the cat. So, a sentence must have a subject and predicate that express a complete thought.
However, we need to understand that these expressions are what we call elliptical or incomplete sentences. They are abbreviations — shortened versions — of what the speaker or writer is implying when they reply to a statement by someone else. Who knows? It just sounds wrong, and no native speaker would use such an expression source. The reason for this is that all languages evolve through those who use the language — its speakers and writers.
There are endless examples of our most revered writers breaking the so-called rules. Share Tweet Me Either vs. Me neither! I feel that neither is used to convey something said in the negative. Leave a Comment or Question: Cancel reply. Please ensure that your question or comment relates to the topic of the blog post. Unrelated comments may be deleted. If necessary, use the "Search" box on the right side of the page to find a post closely related to your question or comment.
Your email address will not be published. Me Neither : Considering Two Poor Grammatical Choices Both me either and me neither mean approximately the same thing, but neither is grammatically precise. If so, that may explain why phrases such as me either remain so prevalent, which brings us back to our original question: Which Is Better: Me Either or Me Neither?
Me Neither : Why These Phrases Matter If most people understand us when we say me either or me neither, does it matter that we are not grammatically accurate?
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Kerry G says:. I differentiate with " Neyether, neether nor eeither. Which really drives my pompous ass of a husband nuts LOL. Indhira Nov I go with the general flow: 'me neither' is absolutely standard spoken English, but there are formal occasions when 'neither do I' would be more appropriate. But my main concern is 'me either', because there is no negative; it makes no sense to me.
Warsaw Will Dec I can neither understand nor believe in what I saw I can't neither understand nor believe in what i saw I would't neither understand nor believe in what I saw The first version of both examples is correct. In the second version of your examples you have a double negative. If you expand the contractions it becomes a bit more clear, i.
In addition to being incorrect, the double negatives would cancel each other out and change the meaning of the sentence. Ian1 Mar Both "me neither" and "me either" are correct. How can that be? They both are short forms. But that "rule" is not noted much nowadays. Anent the "me" instead of "I", it's the old dativ form. AnWulf May Language changes and is transmitted orally. Saying something is "correct" or "incorrect" is incorrect.
There is "accepted among certain people" and "not accepted among certain people. The prigs on here need to go relax somewhere nice and peaceful and stop school-marming the rest of us peeps "peep" has entered the vernacular now, peeps. Coondog Jun Speaker B: Me neither or Me either " I think that "nor" is preferable to "neither" or "either". Whether it be "nor me" or "nor I" is a different story. YUP Feb Hairy Scot - "Nor I", would be pretty formal, I think. Some possible answers, in descending order of formality, the numbers are the number of hits in the British National Corpus when followed by a comma or full stop :.
Warsaw Will Feb He didn't remember and neither did I. I hadn't been to New York before and neither had Jane. Neither do I or me neither are just like informal expressions, actually when someone say like " Me neither " it's the opposit of " Me either " just like that "n" means NOT, but it isn't right to say, " Me not either " Haha, please don't do that! Actually I think that neither do I is a little bit ugly to say, I don't like to use it Tiago Newton Feb I'm from England, and 'me either sounds odd to me.
Nobody says it. I had to look it up, though, because I noticed someone online say 'either', then I questioned my way. Maybe I should have just said 'nor did I Zoe Apr Therefore, the word "me" is being used as the subject of the sentence and is incorrect, because "me" is the objective case. I know that "me neither" sounds normal because it is commonly used. However, the question concerns what is correct English, so any of us who have come to this site recognize that there is a standard to which we comparing our speech.
Therefore, the concept that if a "native speaker uses it, then it must be correct" is abhorrent to me. If that were true, there would never be English classes in school and there would be no sites like this! CC Jul I mean, soon, "I did good on my test" will be considered proper grammar. Nonyobizz Feb Grammar: descriptive rather than prescriptive, but some howlers ought to be laughed out of court. In similar situations, I believe I use "me neither".
I've been paying attention to this for a while now, trying to see how others, choose to say that phrase. I've only heard "me either" once. And I had to stop and think for a second because it sounds so foreign to me.
I'm dying to know the correct answer to this conundrum, though. Tine Dec Max and Allison and Cherry and Oyster. They were all constantly doing stuff together as couples, since Phoebe was single she was never apart of that.
Never being apart of the group started to make her feel lonely and left out. They mentioned going to the heart tree as couples, together. Phoebe said something about tagging along, so her friends assumed she was in a relationship again. Do you have a question? Submit your question here. Yes No.
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