Is this sentence correct? If not, could you point out what part is not correct?
As an incentive to attend the local college, our father told my brother and I that we could use his company car for transport.
Only one word is wrong.
Did your father tell I or did he tell me?
Umm.... He told me? So it would be 'told my brother and me'?
Yes, you've got it! He told my brother and me.
The rest of the sentence is fine.
Yay! Thanks so much!
The sentence you provided is not correct. The error lies in the usage of pronouns.
To identify the error, let's break down the sentence:
"As an incentive to attend the local college" - This phrase is correctly introducing the reason or motivation.
"Our father told my brother and I" - Here, the pronoun "I" is incorrect. You can determine the correct pronoun by removing "my brother and" from the sentence. "Our father told I" does not sound right. In this case, you should use the pronoun "me" instead of "I".
"That we could use his company car for transport" - This part of the sentence is correctly conveying that you and your brother were allowed to use your father's company car for transportation.
A corrected version of the sentence would be:
"As an incentive to attend the local college, our father told my brother and me that we could use his company car for transport."