Come on now, Mr. Doherty. Surely your style manual does not approve of “Me and Pat Patton. . .started shutting down. . .” That makes Tracy sound like a punk kid who never went to school. My teachers taught me that the simple way to figure out how to construct a sentence like that is to take out the other person and try it. You wouldn’t say “Me started shutting down” (unless you were trying to sound like Tonto in the old 1950s Lone Ranger show). You would say “I started shutting down”. Therefore, the correct construction is “Pat Patton and I”, not “Me and Pat Patton.”
Come on now, Mr. Doherty. Surely your style manual does not approve of “Me and Pat Patton. . .started shutting down. . .” That makes Tracy sound like a punk kid who never went to school. My teachers taught me that the simple way to figure out how to construct a sentence like that is to take out the other person and try it. You wouldn’t say “Me started shutting down” (unless you were trying to sound like Tonto in the old 1950s Lone Ranger show). You would say “I started shutting down”. Therefore, the correct construction is “Pat Patton and I”, not “Me and Pat Patton.”