Posted: Feb 16, 2016 8:44 pm
Thanks for the responses.
How about saying "The man was bitten by the dog"? Now the man is the subject, but it still means the same thing as the dog bit the man.
Now I've strayed from the I/me discussion.
The_Piper wrote:
Is I used when I am referring to myself from my own "point of view", and me used when referring to myself from an outside "point of view"?
The difference between 'I' and 'Me' is to be found when one considers the concepts of 'subject' and 'object' in language.
Basically, the subject of a sentence is the the person or thing that performs the action. The object of a sentence is the person or thing that receives the actions.
So, if we take a sentence like 'The dog bit the man'. We know that it was the dog doing the biting and the man getting bit.
English indicates these relationships primarily by word order. That is, the person who does the action comes first, then the action, and the the receiver of the action. If you change the word order, you change the meaning. (Consider 'The man bit the dog'. Same words, different order, different meaning.)
How about saying "The man was bitten by the dog"? Now the man is the subject, but it still means the same thing as the dog bit the man.
Now I've strayed from the I/me discussion.