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Rule "me (I)"

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Description: me (I)
Message: Please check whether you should use the pronoun me or I.
Category: Possible Typo (ID: TYPOS)
Link: https://languagetool.org/insights/post/you-i-versus-you-me/
Incorrect sentences
that this rule can detect:
  • The teacher asked Ben and myself.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • The teacher asked Ben and myself to go over there.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • Mary, Ben and myself went over there.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • The teacher thinks Mary and myself are going to the beach later.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • Just between you and myself, do you think Peter deserved that award?
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • The teacher will be presenting Jim Little and myself.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • This is the best chocolate mousse that my guests and myself have ever eaten.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • Kortney Brown or myself are you credit contacts.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • We met last March when Scott Kominiak and myself visited your office.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • Ruth, Stacey, John and myself had some further discussion regarding our meeting of last week.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • You can take Michael and myself off of the list, as we no longer use this report.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • Carl Carter and myself are working with Colleen Sullivan.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • As a test, my coworker and myself included this sentence.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • If you wanted to work some holidays and I wasn't able to get you in, talk to Don or myself.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
  • Harvard Commencement Address (1978) I admire the fact that he took almost 30 minutes of his time to show his interest in this project and myself.
    Correction suggestion: me, I
Correct sentences
for comparison:
  • The teacher asked Ben and me.
  • Mary and myself are going to the beach later.
  • I will be presenting Jim Little and myself.
  • I happily introduced Jim and myself to the new staff.
  • I nervously suggested that the engineer and myself take it in turns to do unassigned tasks.
  • Our service management folk and myself included really dislike seeing these messages.
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Check the following text against just this rule:

ID: CONFUSION_OF_ME_I [16]
Version: 6.5-SNAPSHOT (2024-05-11 22:33:07 +0200)