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my friends and I across the countryside with a crossbow?' He smiled. 'My friends and I? Bravo! I was beginning to think there was nobody else who appreciated the English language.'
Actually, the grammar Nazi is wrong - the objective form of the pronoun (me) follows a verb (chasing). For example,
"Why are you chasing ME?", THEREFORE
"Why are you chasing my friends and ME?"
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be a heroine... But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine...”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“What could she have done? She was a heroine, and with that came certain obligations.”
― Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
― Nachtstürm Castle: A Gothic Austen Novel
“But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen to throw a hero in her way.”
― Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel
― Northanger Abbey: a play in two acts, based upon the novel
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