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Tracy and I are going to London.
not

Tracy and me are going to London.

Mrs Jones gave some sweets to John and me.
not

Mrs Jones gave some sweets to John and I.

To check which is correct, it is often useful to remove the
proper noun. The following examples are obviously wrong.

Mrs Jones gave some sweets to I.

Me is going to London.

‘I’, ‘he’, ‘she’, ‘we’ and ‘they’ are subjects and are usually
at the beginning of the sentence.

‘Me’, ‘her’, ‘him’, ‘us’ and ‘them’ are objects and
usually follow the verb.

However, when a verb is ‘understood’ at the end of the
sentence, it is the personal pronoun that is used:

He is taller than I (am).
She was angrier than he (was).

Neither ‘am’ nor ‘was’ needs to be included at the end of the
sentences. They are both ‘understood’. The following exam-
ples are therefore incorrect: