4. My sister and I woke up at seven. My sister and I were
late for school.
ito pindi wekeun at seven in Pronouns
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Answer:
The correct form depends upon whether you and your sibling are the SUBJECT of the verb that specifies an ACTION that you are both performing, or whether you (plural) are OBJECTS of an action indicated by the verb that describes the action performed upon both of you.
For an ACTIVE verb, the actor performing the action (or SUBJECT") can be represented by pronouns such as:
I
he
she
who
we
they
whereas the target or victim or OBJECT of that action may be represented with pronouns such as
me
him
her
whom
us
them
N.B. Observe that the letter "m" occurs in most of the OBJECT case pronouns, but never in those of SUBJECT case!
If the sentence uses an active verb (such as run, jump, shoot, or ask) then the subject might be "My sister and I" (who perform the action upon some other OBJECT);
however, another sentence might specify that it is some other actor (i.e. SUBJECT) performing some action upon "me and my sister" and you both constitute the OBJECT upon whom the action is being performed.
Also note that (regardless of any conventions of "politeness" such as putting the first person last), the following phrases are entirely equivalent and grammatically correct:
I and my sister
My sister and I
and either one may be used as the SUBJECT of a an active verb (i.e as the actors performing the action); likewise, the following phrases are equivalent and either one is grammatically correct to indicate the OBJECT of an active verb (i.e the one(s) upon whom the action is being performed):
my sister and me.
me and my sister.
Finally, I should point out that "passive" verbs (such as am, is, are, was, were, will be) tend to create a "predicate-nominative" sentence wherein the SUBJECT case is used for both the actor and the acted-upon (and grammatically-correct pronouns should not include the letter "m"). That is one reason why "passive" sentences are less effective in good writing (and also why avoiding "the passive voice" will raise your score on the SAT and ACT exams!)
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I'll add another SAT/ACT tip, here, by mentioning that prepositions always relate to an OBJECT (which should therefore be in OBJECT case, if it happens to be a pronoun), but the object of a preposition is almost never the SUBJECT of a verb.
This grammatical factoid is sometimes useful in eliminating traps in SAT & ACT sentences that contain errors of "Subject-Verb Disagreement in Number" (wherein the subject and verb are not both plural or not both singular). If a noun or pronoun is the object of a preposition, then it cannot be the the subject of the verb, so the entire prepositional phrase can be eliminated