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I'm Jason Kander. And I'm Ravi Gupta.

And this is Majority 54, the podcast that helps Americans who voted for progress, convinced those who didn't to join our majority.

Ravi, I understand that we have a voicemail about my grammar that we should start with here.

It's grammar time Jason.

Hi, I'm sure Jason didn't want to say E.D. Allard made her first appearance with I.

I'm sure he was telling one to tell his readers that E.D. Allard had made her first appearance with me.

And once you've started a whole misive with such a glaring error, it just throws the message off for the whole thing.

E.D. Allard joined me, not G.D. Allard joined I.

What do you buy? Okay, this is like I'm resisting the defensive urge to be like, well, we have listeners, not readers, because this person is very well intentioned.

And I will just say that this is a thing that I have struggled with my entire life.

I think what she's referring to is I probably said like E.D. is joining Ravi and I or something, which I recognize now when I really think about it is probably wrong.

But Ravi, this is a real weak spot for me. Like I'm a relatively accomplished writer and I will go out of my way to avoid writing, like having to figure out whether it's me and I.

So what's the rule?

Well, this again, that very brilliant listener, who didn't criticize me.

So who's my newest fan is alluding to the rule, which is that you should isolate the pronoun when you're testing it.

So the way to do it is, so if you said that, you know, Jason and I went to the store versus Jason and me went to the store, you say Jason went to the store, I went to the store, me went to the store.

And then me obviously doesn't sound right. So you do Jason and I went to the store, I went to the store. So you basically just focus on each pronoun individually.

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