Article 1 Response

The article included the explanations of many commonly made grammatical mistakes. I was more aware of some of them than others. Some of them, I found to be confusing. For example, he writes, "When you're writing about a non-true situation — usually following the word if or the verb wish — the verb to be is rendered as were." He follows this with the example "If Hillary Clinton was were president, things would be a whole lot different." Then he includes, "If you are using if for other purposes (hypothetical situations, questions), you don't use the subjunctive." Which he follows with the example of " If an intruder were was here last night, he would have left footprints, so let's look at the ground outside." Both sentences include a reference to a hypothetical situation using the word "if." I don't understand why one requires the word "were" while the other requires "was."
The thing that stuck with me was one of the least explain. The subject of when to use "I" versus "me," in situations such as "Joe and I went to the fair." rather than "Joe and me went to the fair," is something that I truly began to understand a few years ago. The way I've always remembered it is to say the sentence with out the other person. For example, the proper sentence would be "I went to the fair." not "Me went to the fair." Or if I was going to say "There's a picture of Gracie and __." Which is correct: "There's a picture of me." or "There's a picture of I." So, in that case you would use "me" not "I."


I probably made multiple mistakes in my grammar in this post, but I tried. Plus, everyone needs a little irony in their lives, right?