Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-67.248.240.148-20170908201845/@comment-4010415-20171126235611

WC-83 wrote: Only up until it becomes incomprehensible. The basic gist is that as long as the spirit of the sentence is preserved, the rules fall silent.

Example: the classic "Me and my friends" vs. the correct "My friends and I." The second one is technically correct, but most people verbally say the first due to how easily it rolls off the tongue.

Small fact: The English language also keeps making up words. Every other language has given up on making up words for them and just adopted them whole sale. Ehhh, it also depends on what the rest of the sentence is.

"He told me and my friends" is correct, whereas "He told my friends and I" is not. The easy way to figure out if it's correct or not is to remove the part about "my friends". So, compare "He told me" vs "He told I".