Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "\"Between you and I\" is a phrase that has drawn considerable interest from linguists, grammarians, and stylists, since it appears to contain a grammatical error: according to many grammarians and stylists a pronoun in a prepositional phrase in English is supposed to be in the oblique case—that is, according to many authors, Shakespeare, who used the phrase in The Merchant of Venice (1596–98), should have written \"between you and me\".Shakespeare's use of the phrase has been described as a grammatical error \"of unsurpassable grossness\", although whether it was in fact an error is a matter of debate. Modern linguists for the most part agree that \"between you and I\" is an example of grammatical hypercorrection, though there is still disagreement on whether the phrase itself in today's language is grammatically correct or not."@en }
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- Between_you_and_I abstract "\"Between you and I\" is a phrase that has drawn considerable interest from linguists, grammarians, and stylists, since it appears to contain a grammatical error: according to many grammarians and stylists a pronoun in a prepositional phrase in English is supposed to be in the oblique case—that is, according to many authors, Shakespeare, who used the phrase in The Merchant of Venice (1596–98), should have written \"between you and me\".Shakespeare's use of the phrase has been described as a grammatical error \"of unsurpassable grossness\", although whether it was in fact an error is a matter of debate. Modern linguists for the most part agree that \"between you and I\" is an example of grammatical hypercorrection, though there is still disagreement on whether the phrase itself in today's language is grammatically correct or not.".