Identify the grammatically correct sentence involving pronoun case:
Answer and explanation
Correct answer: D. The scholarship committee awarded the research grant to her and me.
- Step 1: The preposition 'to' governs an objective case pronoun (object of a preposition).
- Step 2: The objective form of the third-person feminine pronoun is 'her', and the objective form of the first-person singular pronoun is 'me'.
- Step 3: Testing individually confirms: 'to her' and 'to me'. Thus, 'to her and me' is grammatically correct.
Answer
The scholarship committee awarded the research grant to her and me.
Why not the others: 'to she and I' uses subjective pronouns as objects of a preposition; 'to her and I' uses subjective 'I' as an object; 'to she and me' incorrectly uses subjective 'she'.
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