"Me and my brother" or "My brother and I"

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vipinsharma: Newbie | Next Rank: 10 Posts; Posts: 9; Joined: Tue Apr 08, 2014 11:29 amFollowed by: 1 member; Thanked: 1 times

by vipinsharma » Mon Sep 29, 2014 10:51 pm

Help me out with this:

which one is correct: "Me and my brother" or "My brother and I "? Or both are correct?

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by ceilidh.erickson » Tue Sep 30, 2014 11:07 am

This is not an issue that the GMAT would test, since the GMAT will never write in the first person ("I" or "me").

The correct usage depends on whether the expression is a subject or an object. Just as we use "I" for a subject (I bought a book) and "me" for an object (He bought a book for me), so we would use "My brother and I" as a subject and "my brother and me" as an object:
My brother and I bought books.
My father bought books for my brother and me.

"Me and my brother" is never correct.

Ceilidh Erickson
EdM in Mind, Brain, and Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education

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