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barneyaa t1_iudujnc wrote

Reply to comment by Shoogled in My boyfriend and my’s Halloween costume this year by tara_constance

And I

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GaGaORiley t1_iue5sm3 wrote

No. If it was one person, it would be “(this is) me in my Hallowe’en costume,” not, “(this is I in my Hallowe’en costume”.

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Shoogled t1_iue7w3p wrote

Both are arguably correct but me is preferable. It can only be ‘my boyfriend and I’ if one is trying to say ‘this is my boyfriend and I’, accepting that the verb ‘to be’ takes the nominative case. But I presume you don’t usually say ‘this is I’ because that sounds like an affectation.

You would never say this is a picture of I. So you mustn’t say ‘this is a picture of my boyfriend and I.’

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