**-The common cold is (one of our most) indiscriminate diseases; (it makes) no (distinction between) (you and me), millionaires and paupers, or athletes and couch potatoes. (No error) **
Isn’t it you and I?
“You and me” is correct.
To my knowledge, “I” usually only appears as the subject of the sentence, and “me” only appears if it’s the object, for example:
Linda and I went to the movies.
He gave the book to you and me.
“You and I” is “We.” “You and me” is “us.”
Does it make distinctions between we?
Or does it make distinctions between us?
“Between” is a preposition, so the pronouns after it are OBJECTS of the preposition, so they must be in the objective case.
Young children frequently say and write things like, “Me and Sam went to the store.” Parents and teachers then correct them by saying, “Sam and I.” The more astute kids learn a rule that involves the difference between subjects and objects. The “middle astute” kids learn a “rule” that says, “Always use ‘Sam and I’ because it sounds smarter.”
The unfortunate result is that we now have a lot of educated people in positions of authority overuse “Sam and I,” but because they are bosses and senators and, yes, even teachers, no on corrects them, and the hypercorrection is perpetuated.
I just want to know how “you and me” are objects in this specific sentence. What is being done to them (since the object is what the action being done on)?
The cold (subject) makes no distinction between you and me (objects).
Making a distinction is the same as distinguishing. I (subject) can distinguish right from wrong (objects).
The action is differentiation. The cold cannot tell us (object) apart.
Alternatively, if “you and me” is the subject, what are we doing? We’re not doing anything. The COLD is doing the distinguishing.
Really helpful - thanks.