"Between you and me" or "Between you and I"

“Let’s keep this between you and I.” [x]
“Let’s keep this between you and me.” [√]

Why? … Because between is a preposition and the pronouns following prepositions are always in the objective case which would be the pronoun me and not I.

Kenapa? ... Karena "between" adalah preposisi dan kata ganti orang (pronoun) yang mengikuti preposisi harus berbentuk objek pronoun "me", bukan "I".

• Just between you and me, Julie is cheating on her husband.
• Don't tell anyone else. It's just between you and me. OK?

Take a look at the use of prepositions with, to, from, and between with objective case:

• She went with me. (She went with I.)
• She went with Barry and me. (She went with Barry and I.)
• Graham gave it to me. (Graham gave it to I.)
• He wants to talk to you and me. (He wants to talk to you and I.)
• This is from your mom and me. (This is from your mom and I.)
• This is between Michelle and me. (This is between Michelle and I.)

Can you answer this quiz? After answering the quiz, you can read the explanation below.

Here’s the explanation to the quiz:

When to use “he were“ instead of “he was“?

In the following examples, you can see that we sometimes use the were-subjunctive (instead of was) after:

if

as if

wish

suppose

Although it sounds strange, we use were for all pronouns, including the first and third person pronouns:I, you, they, we, he, she, it.

• I wish I were rich.

  (Contrary to the fact: I’m not rich.)

• I wish he/she were here now.