“Barbies have really cool couture clothes in Japan. They made Barbies of Haylie and I and we got to design the clothes and it was really cool.” - Hilary Duff, on the line of doll clothing she designed with her sister
Hilary has used a subjective pronoun as the object of a preposition. In the prepositional phrase “of Haylie and I,” the compound object of the preposition “of” is “Haylie and I.” Separate the components of the compound object and pair each with the preposition to test the case of the pronoun.
- of Haylie [This makes sense.]
- of I [This does not make sense.]
The pronoun “I” is subjective and cannot serve as the object of a preposition. Change the case of the pronoun to objective to correct the error.
“They made Barbies of Haylie and me and we got to design the clothes and it was really cool.”
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