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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?"
“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
“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
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