In English, sentences usually operate using a similar pattern: subject, verb, then object. Learn more about this structure and its components.

Just by getting Katie and Kevin out of the picture, we see clearly that these sentences call for an object, not a subject. That doesn’t change just because Katie or Kevin shows up.

But there’s more going on in this sentence than meets the eye. And to see why “me” is the better choice here, it’s best to start with a review of subject and object pronouns.

A phrase is a group of words that does not contain a subject and a predicate, with ‘predicate’ referring to the part of a sentence that contains the verb and gives information about the subject.

He's taking Jane and me to the park. It's right because "Jane and me" are the objects of the sentence (the things being taken) while "he" is the subject (the thing that is taking).

This article examines the acquisition of subject and object wh-questions by English-speaking children. The acquisitional predictions of several recent linguistic descriptions of subject and object ...