Someone, whom will remain nameless, that hosts "Worship 180", has brought it to my attention that the phrase that I use before Prayer Time to encourage people to pray with me is grammatically incorrect.
Before "Prayer Time" I usually say something like, "Let's pray together, you, I and the Prayer Partners". I was informed that it should be, "You, me and the Prayer Partners". After some debate and a poll of the staff we decided to ask you, our faithful listeners, which is correct. So......
Which is correct?
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Grammer Help!!
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It is "You, I and the Prayer Partners". I has something to do with the verb "pray". You pray. I Pray. Me pray.
it is me, because the sentence has a "you" understood. "You" let's (let us) pray, you, me and the prayer partners. You would not say, "You" let I pray. You would, however, say "You" let me pray.
I asked Tim to post this for me as I am blind and have no computer (So I'm typing this for her- Tim)...
The answer is "I". It is "I" because you would say "you pray", "I pray" "they (the prayer partners) pray", not "me pray".
Does it matter if it is I or Me as long as we are praying?
You asked for a rule: This is coming from a speech & language pathologist with 29 yrs experience.
First, you have already been understood as the speaker of the sentence-you are referring to yourself in the sentence. It is more correct to say "Let's pray together, you, myself and the prayer partners". The rule has to do with case. Case is the form that a noun or pronoun takes to show its relationship to other words in a sentence. In English, there are three cases: nomitive, objective, and possessive. Unlike nouns, personal pronouns have different forms for all three cases. This is why you are questioning the form you are using because "I" and "me" are personal pronouns. So let's get back to the rule. Also pronouns can be singular or plural. In the nomitive case the pronoun is "I". In the objective case, the pronoun would be "me" and in the possive case, the pronoun would be "my" or "mine". Since you are attempting to show possessiion of the prayer time, it would be correct to say "Let's pary together, you, myself and the prayer partners". Hope this helps.
Good one. The post from 8:27am April 12th is correct.
The key is "Let's", which is an abbreviation for "Let us". "Us" is the plural of "me" and "you" (plural/multiple); "We" would be the plural of "I" and "you" (single).
You are asking permission of someone (the congregation?) to pray. The "someone" is granting you permission to pray; you are the object (receiver) of the action of permission.
If you said "You, ... and the Prayer Partners should now pray,", the correct case would be "I", because you are doing the action (praying). God would be the object/receiver of your prayers.
Normally "myself" could be used for "I", but since you are asking someone to let you pray, you would't say "Let myself pray". Could be wrong about the "myself" but I'm certain about the " 'me' -vs- 'I'".
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He's becoming quite well known.
His name is GW Williams,many people say he's ranked as one of the top 5 living guitar players in the world today.
It's good to know that us Christians have people posted out there serving in Gods Army from all walks of life.
Below is a link I found at his web site, I ask if I could post this around to help spread the news of His Gospel Music and GW said it was ok with him.
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