<h2>I was just reading silverturtle's guide and i came across the Writing section. </h2>
<p>Him and Bob went to the store together.</p>
<p>Sally, Joe, and her are about to start a new pasta club.</p>
<p>I do desire that you apprise my pet and I of the reasons for your election to depart.
These sentences should be corrected thus:
He and Bob went to the store together.</p>
<p>Sally, Joe, and she are about to start a new pasta club.</p>
<p>I do desire that you apprise my pet and me of the reasons for your election to depart.</p>
<h2>In the third sentence pet and me is the compound object of the verb apprise.</h2>
<p>I was wondering and debating, when do i use ME or I?</p>
<p>Are words like ME, HIM, etc, used as objects of the verbs in general?</p>
<p>^Ok, simple way of thinking this out is to remove the other nouns that go with the conjuction and just see if it makes sense with only that pronoun.</p>
<p>For example: Her and I went to the market.</p>
<p>Take out I. It becomes…</p>
<p>Her went to the market.</p>
<p>WRONG. So you change it to “she” which is actually correct.</p>
<p>Another example: I want you to appraise my pet and I for the upcoming contest. (That makes little sense -_-)</p>
<p>Take out the “my pet”, and the sentence becomes:</p>
<p>I want to you to appraise I for the upcoming contest.
WRONG. “Me” is clearly a better option here.</p>
<p>Etc.</p>
<p>I could tell you about the grammatical rules and reasons why such a thing is incorrect, but on the SAT, the simpler you think about it, the more time you save, hence this convenient method.</p>
<p>JB</p>
<p>thank you, but is there a generic rule of thumb for knowing when to use ME OR I and when to use things like HIM instead of HE and vice-versa?</p>
<p>also, when to use WE or US properly.</p>
<p>When the pronoun is used as a subject of the sentence use “he, she, we, or I”. When the pronoun is an object of the sentence or of a preposition, use “him, her, us, or me”.</p>
<p>JB</p>