Grammar girl here, last week Monique sent in the following question, quote,

a friend of mine posted a picture on Facebook, and the caption read,

I, and Anah, Anah is a foreign name.

I corrected her, but instead of picking up the mistake like a native English speaker

would have, she's adamant about it being correct and went as far as asking me why it's

incorrect.

Could you tell me why her saying, I, and Anah is incorrect, unquote?

I regularly get questions like this about photo captions, and I covered it in my books,

but I've never done a podcast about it, so let's do it today.

The biggest problem with photo captions is that they often aren't complete sentences,

and choosing between the pronoun I and the pronoun me depends on where that pronoun falls

in a complete sentence, whether it's the subject or the object.

If it's in the subject position, you use I, the subject pronoun, but if it's in the

object position, you use me, the object pronoun.

A subject is the one taking action in a sentence, and the object is the one receiving the action

or serving as the target of the action.

In the sentence, squiggly released the arrow, squiggly the subject, and the arrow is the

object.

Remember there are pronouns that follow prepositions, such as I, and between, are always in the object

case.

It's okay to use a sentence fragment to capture in your photo, but to choose between

I, or I, you have to figure out what the whole implied sentence would be, so you know

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