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Word of Mouth

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I Give It to I Instead of Give It to Me

Some people call hyper correctness don't they that this position of I after a verb or after a preposition just to be all technical about it is that traditionally if you go back to kind of old English and Middle English you switched from the eye which is nominative here we go and to the me that is the accusative or the date that you switched. That was what we understand that people did in Middle English and Old English times because we don't have their speech to know for certain people did do that but we think that's what they did according to reading bear wool for Chaucer or something. So when people overdo the eyeing and stuff the eye after the verb or before a pre

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