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Panga and me took some tourists on a singing tour of the Congo. I steered the boat while Panga strummed on his guitar and watched for crocodiles. At Malebo Pool our tourists reacted with frightened grimaces to me singing.

They asked Panga and I to humor them with a non-musical tour. We obliged them until we came upon some rough rapids. Here, several of the tourists were surprised when they heard my singing a solo. But they were too worried by the approaching cataracts to complain.

Answer:

- Pronoun Case -

Using our understanding of the different cases, we can fix another error in the opening paragraph:

    They asked Panga and I to humor them with a non-musical tour.

Here the pronoun is an object of the verb asked. Therefore, it takes the objective case:

    They asked Panga and me to humor them with a non-musical tour.

 

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