<p>Although the guest list is limited, for the most part, to the immediate familes, it will include Mary and I, old friends of both the bride and the groom. </p>
<p>OK, I know the answer is "I" should be "me". But to test if it should be object or subject, can't you reverse the sentence and omit the "Mary and", to say "I am included in it". Thus, doesn't it past the "reversal test"?</p>
<p>The skills required for clothing design are much more complex than for making custom alterations.</p>
<p>How come you can't use "for making" Doesnt "for making" refer to the skills???</p>
<p>1) If you reverse it then obviously you would use I because that is the subject</p>
<p>I ate cake… I = nominative case (subject)
The cake was eaten by me… me = objective case (object)
The objective form of ‘I’ is ‘me’, so you use ‘me’ if you don’t reverse it
Mary on the other hand could be used as a subject or an object</p>
<p>2) its supposed to refer to the skills, but how do you know that it does based on grammar? you only want it to refer to it because thats what the meaning, not the grammar, of the sentence implicates. you need to say:</p>
<p>The skills required for clothing design are much more complex than the skills required for making custom alterations.</p>
<p>1) Mary, I are functioning as direct objects of the verb “will include.” Therefore, the first person pronoun should be in the objective case: “me.”</p>
<p>2) Illogical comparison/lack of parallelism. In the erroneous sentence, you’re comparing “skills required for clothing design” to “for making.” Does that make any sense?</p>
<p>1) I clealry understand that its the direct object.
However, my question is concerning a “trick” mentioned in Rocket Review Writing Section.
RR said that if you flip the sentence around, while retaining the same meaning, you can more easily see if it is grammatically correct.</p>
<p>In this case, if you flipped it around, it would read: “Me and Mary are included in the guest list”. </p>
<p>so (a) is ^ that grammatically corect? (b) Does the flipping “trick” work, and does it work for all cases?</p>
<p>That “trick” only works in certain circumstances. </p>
<p>You yourself said that “if you flip the sentence around, while retaining the same meaning, you can more easily see if it is grammatically correct.” If you flip it around, that can elucidate the question, but it does not determine the grammatical correctness or incorrectness of the sentence.</p>