Rules against most?

[Scot LaFaive]

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> Well, just between you and I, Barbara, I'm almost certain that yours
> is the right analysis.


Correct me if I'm wrong, but shouldn't it be "between you and me," since the
pronoun "I" is the object of the preposition "between" and the object form
of "I" is "me?" I figure since the topic here is correctness..... :)

Scot

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 7:44 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Well, just between you and I, Barbara, I'm almost certain that yours
> is the right analysis.
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> On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 12:05 AM, Barbara Need <bhneed at gmail.com> wrote:
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> > I am teaching developmental writing these days and one of my students
> > threw me this evening. We working on organizing ideas and I was
> > putting together a paragraph from what we have and I wrote a sentence
> > that began something like the following: Next, most students use the
> > internet for communication. When I was just about done with the
> > paragraph, one of my students (40-ish black male, if that should be
> > relevant--Chicagoland) said he thought I should delete "most" and he
> > expressed surprise that a writing instructor should use this
> > construction. I asked him to say why he found the surprising, but he
> > could not articulate it beyond he didn't expect an writing instructor
> > to use. Any guesses as to what rule I violated?
> >
> > It did occur to me as I was driving home that he may have been told
> > not to use most when it is short for almost, but I'm not sure.
> >
> > Barbara
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> > Barbara Need
> > Chicago
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