Co-ordinate conjunctions may connect two pronouns used as the object of the preposition, as:
- He gave that to you and me.
Exercise 4
Study closely the following sentences and correct those in which the wrong form of the pronoun is used.
- He and I are old friends.
- Did you ask him or me?
- They promised him and I that they would come.
- Find the place for she and me.
- Me and him will get it for you and she.
- She and I will go with you.
- You and I must decide matters for ourselves.
- You will find him and her to be loyal comrades.
VERBS
338. Co-ordinate conjunctions are also used to connect verbs. Verbs connected in this way have the same subject; and with the use of the conjunction to connect the verbs, we save repeating the subject.
- He reads and studies constantly.
In this sentence reads and studies are words of the same kind and of the same rank; either could be omitted and the other would make a predicate for the sentence. They are of equal importance in the sentence and are connected by the conjunction and. They have a single subject, the pronoun he.
This is called a compound predicate.