I want to know how to correctly use me and I or you and I in a sentence [duplicate]

Solution 1:

My wife is an elementary school teacher. Her “trick” for helping our daughters with this issue is to take the other person out of the sentence and see how it works.

For example, let’s consider the sentence, “You and me are talking with Jane." If you take “You and…” out of the sentence, you would have “Me are talking with Jane” or even “Me is talking with Jane” which should be obviously incorrect. So, this should be “You and I are talking with Jane.”

If you flip the example sentence around to “Jane is talking with you and me” and again take “you and…” out of the sentence, you would have “Jane is talking with me.” This would be correct as “Jane is talking with I” should be obviously incorrect.

Also as @davidlol mentioned, it is considered polite to put the other person first.

Formally, what you are asking about is the difference between nominative and objective pronouns. A nominative pronoun is typically the subject of the sentence. An objective pronoun is typically the object of the sentence or some other part of the sentence like a preposition. I thought Wikipedia’s entry for “English personal pronouns” offered a good explanation.

English personal pronouns. (2016, February 25). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 19:08, March 1, 2016, from https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=English_personal_pronouns&oldid=706829019