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By: grammarblogger

grammarblogger — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:56:03 +0000

Leslie, if there’s no verb in the caption for the photo, then “Jack, Jane and I” would be correct. Now, if you wrote, “This pictures shows Jack, Jane and me in New York,” you’d need to use the objective form of the first person singular (me, not I). Or, you could say, “Here I am with Jack and Jane in New York.” It really depends on the verb and the sentence structure, but as I said, if there’s no verb, it would be “I.”

By: Leslie

Leslie — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 22:23:33 +0000

When you post pictures online, how do you label the picture? I see people put Jack, Jane, and I or Jack, Jane and me. I would think the correct way is to label it “me” because it is like saying “This is a picture of me.” I am not sure though. Could you please answer?

By: grammarblogger

grammarblogger — Thu, 06 Sep 2007 07:03:27 +0000

I’m still researching this issue, but it may be similar to the word “statistics,” which can be used as both a singular and a plural noun.

I would use it like this: “International relations are important,” but, “International relations is an important subject.”

By: Lorna Dyer

Lorna Dyer — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 15:50:31 +0000

Should I say international relations “are” or international relations “is”.
Thanks.
Lorna

By: grammarblogger

grammarblogger — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:14:12 +0000

It should be your. Taking is a gerund (noun form of a verb), and gerunds always take the possessive. If you use you, it literally means, “I appreciate you,” not “appreciate your taking.”

By: suzanne

suzanne — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 11:06:59 +0000

Should the pronouon ‘you’ be ‘your’ in this sentence?

“I appreciate you taking your time to do this.”