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===Personal pronouns=== In 2004, Jack Lynch, [[assistant professor]] of English at [[Rutgers University]], said on ''[[Voice of America]]'' that the correction of the subject-positioned "you and me" to "you and I" leads people to "internalize the rule that 'you and I' is somehow more proper, and they end up using it in places where they should not β such as 'he gave it to you and I' when it should be 'he gave it to you and me.'"<ref>{{Cite web |date=23 July 2007 |title=Wordmaster: Hypercorrection Is Not Simply Being Fussy or a Nitpicker or a Pedant |url=https://learningenglish.voanews.com/a/a-23-2007-07-23-voa3-83133807/117349.html |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015120201/http://learningenglish.voanews.com/content/a-23-2007-07-23-voa3-83133807/117349.html |archive-date=15 October 2012 |access-date=28 January 2024 |website=[[Voice of America|VOA: Learning English]]}}</ref> However, the linguists [[Rodney Huddleston]] and [[Geoffrey K. Pullum]] write that [[utterances]] such as "They invited Sandy and I" are "heard constantly in the conversation of people whose status as speakers of Standard English is clear" and that "[t]hose who condemn it simply assume that the case of a pronoun in a coordination must be the same as when it stands alone. Actual usage is in conflict with this assumption."<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Huddleston |first1=Rodney D. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/ocm57574762 |title=A student's introduction to English grammar |last2=Pullum |first2=Geoffrey K. |date=2005 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-84837-4 |location=Cambridge, UK; New York |pages=107 |oclc=ocm57574762}}</ref>
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