Between You and I
It seems to have become increasingly fashionable for persons to say, âBetween you and I.â This is wrong. It is a basic rule of grammar that a preposition is always followed by the accusative, never the nominative. One has simply to transpose the pronouns to realise how incorrect it is: âBetween I and you.â {{more}}
Other examples also illustrate the incorrectness: âBetween we and she;â âHe spoke to I and she;â âGive it to I.â I could go on and on, but these simple examples should suffice.
Let me quote from The Collins Dictionary, as it defines the word âbetweenâ: âConfined or restricted to: between you and meâ…
Grammatically, between you and I is incorrect. The proper construction is âBetween you and me.â
I hope this clarifies a simple matter of grammar, which has been embarrassing me as I have listened to so many public speakers confide, âBetween you and I.â
A Cecil Cyrus