Pitfalls of grammar
From: Brian Sheridan, Redmires Road, Sheffield.
WHILE I strongly agree with Rosamund M Gray that sloppy grammar from professional announcers is unacceptable, I fear she has scored an own goal in her attack on some ITV presenters (The Yorkshire Post, July 26).
Their solecism, she asserts, is to end an announcement with “Mary Nightingale and me” instead of “Mary Nightingale and I”. I cannot think of an instance where the latter would be correct at the end of a sentence. “I” is only appropriate if it is the subject of a verb, which is clearly not the case here.