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[rachard1583]

"Between you and I" is always wrong. Use "Between you and me."

Many speakers and writers of English use the expression "between you and I." People use this expression because it makes them sound more educated or so they think.

The word between is a preposition. Prepositions are words that show relationships between nouns or pronouns. Examples of prepositions include: about, above, below, beneath, in, over, and, of course, between.

A safe way of making sure that you are using the correct pronoun case after a proposition is to convert the two singular pronouns into one plural pronoun. What this means is that if you are not sure of whether to use "between you and I" (which is always wrong) or "between you and me" (which is the correct form), change "you and me," which are both singular pronouns, to "we" or "us," which are their plural equivalents.
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[jumbonaut]

10 points!
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[CP]

You are right, but still, even Shakespeare made the mistake of saying, "Between you and I."

Whenever I hear it, it grates on my ears. I can't imagine why anyone would think it's right to say "between you and I.": ''All debts are clear'd between you and I'' (''Merchant of Venice,'' Act III, scene ii, line 319).

When I was a child, I used to hear people say, "Between you, me, and the fence post, . . . ." At least they got the pronoun right.
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