How do you say my brother and me or my brother and I?

Answer 1

It depends on the sentence in which you are using it in. Here are some examples of each:

'Give my brother and me the corn flakes on the counter.'

'My brother and I are going camping without corn flakes.'

The trick to use each properly is to eliminate the 'my brother and' and just say the sentence with just 'I' or 'me' in the sentence. Here are the repeated sentences without 'my brother and':

'Give me the corn flakes on the counter.'

'I am going camping without corn flakes.'

(The reason 'are' was changed to 'am' in the second sentence was because 'are' is plural, and was referring to you and your brother, while 'am' is only referring to you.)

As long as the sentence makes sense, as shown in these two sentences, 'my brother and me' or 'my brother and I'are both acceptable wordings.

Answer 2

The noun phrase 'My brother and I' is a subjective form based on the subjective pronoun 'I'. The pronoun that takes the place of the noun phrase is 'we', the first person, plural, subjective pronoun.

Example:

My brother and I are going fishing on Saturday. (subject of the sentence)

We are going fishing on Saturday. (subject of the sentence)

A subjective pronoun does not necessarily have to replace a subjective antecedent. The case of the pronoun is determined by that pronoun's function in the sentence. An objective pronoun can replace a subjective antecedent.

Example: My brother and I are going fishing. It's very relaxing for us.

Answer 3

My brother and I