There are my father, mother, grandparents, me who was seven years old, and my brother who was five years old.
The above sentence is used to describe a photograph. Is the sentence correct? Will it be "me" or "I"? Thanks
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2Some grammarians will insist the pronoun here should be I, because it's a "nominative" usage (as the syntactic "subject" of the verb was 7 yrs old). But in practice most native speakers just use me anyway.– FumbleFingersCommented Mar 11, 2020 at 17:19
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1Does this answer your question? "I and John" vs. "John and myself" vs. "John and I" -- Which is the acceptable way to refer to myself and my friend?– FumbleFingersCommented Mar 11, 2020 at 17:20
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1Usually I try to decide such things by removing everything but the "me" case to simplify. So does the "are" become "am" or "is" when it's just me? "There am I who was seven years old." "There is me who was seven years old." I don't really like either one. I would probably rewrite the whole thing.– puppetsockCommented Mar 11, 2020 at 19:40
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