IMPROVING YOUR STYLE / 79 Tracy and I are going to London. not Tracy and me are going to London. Mrs Jones gave some sweets to John and me. Mrs Jones gave some sweets to John and I. not 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: She was angrier than he (was). He is taller than I (am). 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: