On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Scott Ingram wrote: #So, "I will give the ball to me." is correct. Except that it violates the reflexive rule: it should be "I will give the ball to myself". Take out that confusing issue by changing the subject and we get a clear example: "They will give the ball to me." -- Dr. Whom, Consulting Linguist, Grammarian, Orthoepist, and Philological Busybody a.k.a. Mark A. Mandel