Yorkshire Post

Pitfalls of grammar

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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.

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