- grammar - Jon and I or Jon and me? - English Language Usage Stack . . .
How do I know when to use Jon and I, or Jon and me? I can't really figure it out I've tried to teach myself, but I just can't seem to do it Will someone please help me figure this problem out?
- Hello [Comma?] John, - English Language Usage Stack Exchange
I was taught, lo, many years ago, that you should use a comma before the name of the person (s) you address Therefore, "Hello, John" is correct I've been looking through all of my manuals to find a source I haven't found one yet, but I know that I will find it if I keep looking If you're only communicating with one person, there is no need to use the name, as the recipient of the greeting
- etymology - Why does the name John have an h in it? - English . . .
From this, I would tentatively conclude that (1 ) the vernacular pronunciation of the name became a single-syllable "Jon" fairly early on, and (2 ) the John spelling might have originally been a Latin-language abbreviation, but it came to be used as the standard vernacular spelling because it matched the vernacular pronunciation
- etymology - Why is a bathroom sometimes called a john? - English . . .
"John" is sometimes used as slang for a bathroom or a toilet I'm curious, what is the origin of this usage?
- “John Doe”, “Jane Doe” - Why are they used many times?
John Doe is very generic, rolls off the tongue, and in colloquy is not easily mistaken for a known person, like "John Smith" might be (there was at least one very famous John Smith, and though that name is commonly equated with anonymity the usage is less formal) The John Doe name itself has a very long history; English records of anonymous or unknown persons being called John Doe date back
- Is it acceptable to drop the comma in Thanks, John?
The main difference between lying and not using a comma in "Thanks, John", in your analogy, is that lying is a deliberate act of deception that often has negative consequences for the person being lied to, whereas dropping that comma is unlikely to have any negative consequences for the reader and is often not done deliberately It's a poor analogy
- phrase requests - Gender-neutral Jane Doe John Doe - English . . .
Is there a gender-neutral alternative to "Jane Doe" "John Doe"? I would like to provide an example of signed form, but how to avoid using gender when it comes to names? Is there some widely-used
- Object pronoun: me and John, or John and me? [closed]
It is formally correct to say 'with John and me' or 'with me and John', but the first one is the preferred style in print or in school (as Peter and John said) 'with me and John' sounds informal because of this style choice Also 'with John and I' is formally incorrect (prepositions in English take the accusative case), but there is a tendency nowadays for people to say it because, by
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