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PASTOR GENERAL'S
REPORT
TO THE MINISTRY OF THE
WORLDWIDE CHURCH OF GOD
VOL • 4 , NO • 3 8
PASADENA, CALIFORNIA
Don't Expose Your IGNORANCE!
by Herbert
w.
Armstrong
SEPTEMBER 20, 1982
Some of our ministers have been nonchalantly unaware of this, but they
have been giving the appearance of being ignorant and uneducated.
I have heard some of you saying things such as, "John took Sam and I to
lunch." One of an eighth grade education ought to have expressed it, "took
Sam and me.
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The speaker gave the appearance of being uneducated or care
less in his speech. Or, he may have said, "Sam and me both saw it." He
should have said, "Sam and I."
Or, in giving announcements in Church:
lights on."
Or, "It's raining outside.
brella?"
"Somebody has left their car
Does everyone have their um-
I have heard such ungrammatical expressions from our ministers so of
ten that I asked Herman L. Hoeh to prepare a brief few paragraphs explaining
correct usage in such cases. His explanation follows.
CORRECT USAGE OF PRONOUNS
by Herman L. Hoeh
Nothing shows a speaker or a writer to be a novice any faster than the
misuse of pronouns. Teaching the correct use of pronouns in school is not
enough. There is always the need to follow up with a lifetime of conscious
practice when speaking or writing.
How to use pronouns correctly? Tha.t, for some, is a problem because
bad grammatical habits have been allowed to form.
Nominative case pronouns--!, �, you, he, she and they--are used as
subjects or as predicate nominatives.
In the sentence, She and I are going shopping today, She and I are the
subjects. The nominative case-forms must be used. One never says, Me and
her are going shopping today.
In the sentence, John's closest friends are you and!, you and! are
predicate nominatives following the verb to be. They are in the nominative