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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Historical note on double negation.
On Thu, Dec 24, 2020 at 08:30:32PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> On 2020-12-24 16:19, Rick Moen wrote:
>
> > > Another such an example is
> > >    John and me went swimming.
> > > Here 'and' serves as a preposition.

> >
> > I'm not sure where the location is, where 'and' fails to be a
> > conjunction when used between two nouns in that fashion, but I'm
> > curious what colour the sky is, there.
>
> But if "and" is a conjunction in this sentence pattern, the nouns or
> pronouns it joins together form the subject, and so they ought to be in
> the nominative, i.e. "John and I". I understood that to be Hendrik's
> point, even if he didn't express it very clearly (perhaps adding some
> irony to the thread).


Yes, that's true in modern educated English.

-- hendrik

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