"I" is a nominative pronoun, which means that it is used as the subject of a sentence, or as a predicate nominative.
I是主格代词,意思是用作句子的主语,或谓语主格
A predicate nominative (also called a predicate noun) is a word or group of words that completes a linking verb and renames the subject.
谓语主格(也称为谓语名词)是一个词或一组词,它补全了系动词后的成分并重新命名主语。
比如说:
I went to the store.
我去商店。
In this case, "I" is the subject of the sentence - the person who performed the action of going to the store. This sentence is correct because it uses "I" as the subject.
You also use "I" as a predicate nominative after a "to be" verb.
In this case, "I" comes after the verb "is" and is a the predicate nominative, or another name for the subject of the sentence - in this case, "it." This may sound unusual, because many people colloquially say, "It's me," but using "I" in this way is grammatically correct and preferable in formal English.
"Me" is an object pronoun, which means that it serves as a direct or indirect object to the verb or as the object of a preposition.
Me是宾语代词,意思是作为动词的直接或间接宾语或介词宾语。
For example:
Mom hugged me.
妈妈抱了我。
In this sentence, "me" is the direct object of the verb "hugged" because it receives the action of hugging. This sentence is correct because it uses "me" as the direct object.
Likewise, this sentence uses "me" as an indirect object.
类似的,这个句子中“我”作为间接宾语用“me”。
Mom bought a snack for me.
妈妈给我买了零食。
In this sentence, "me" is the object of the preposition "for" and is also correctly used. Note that this sentence conveys the same meaning as the previous one, but it's constructed a bit differently.
A good way to check is to remove the other people at the beginning of the sentence and re-read the sentence to see if it sounds right ("Me got home late" does not!).
有一个检查它的好方法就是你可以移除掉句子开头的其他人,并重新读一遍这个句子听一下是否顺耳。(比方这个句子就变成了,“Me got home late”,很明显并不顺耳。)
The snobby girl thinks she's above my family and I, but she's not.
This is another example of how multiple objects adds confusion. Here "I" is incorrectly used as the object of the preposition "above," but it should be "me."
This one trips up a lot of people as it can't be checked by ear, like the examples above. Though this is a common colloquial phrase, it is not grammatically correct. In this sentence, "was" is a form of the verb to be that sets up a predicate nominative, so the writer should use "I," which is in the nominative case.