I've been meaning to talk about the phrase between you and I for a while, but when I heard

that Hillary Clinton had chosen the song you and I by Celine Dion for her campaign theme

song, I knew it was finally the right time to tackle this topic.

That's because Celine Dion's song you and I is grammatically correct, whereas the Jessica

Simpson song between you and I is incorrect.

First the basics, the word you, I, and me are all pronouns.

They stand for nouns like Hillary, Jessica, and Grammar Girl.

Pronouns can be subjects, objects, or possessive.

I've talked about this before.

The subject of a sentence is the agent taking the action, and the object is the thing or

person being acted on.

If I say I love you, I'm the subject, the one doing the loving, and you're the object.

The target of my love, the object of my affection.

A possessive pronoun shows that the thing or person possesses something.

I won't talk about possessive pronouns anymore today because they aren't relevant to the

topic.

This next part you just kind of have to know.

If you've been speaking English for a long time, you probably know it whether you think

you do or not, and if you're learning English, you just have to memorize it.

I is a subject pronoun, and me is an object pronoun.

The proper sentence is I love you, not me love you.

You use I because the pronoun is the subject of the sentence, and I is the subjective pronoun.

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