OMG, we're still arguing about Faye's Grammar!?!?!?!
There are three 'rules' she's breaking in that sentence, I'll list them:
1: Always list "I" or "me" last in a pair or list. "Sven and me" rather than "Me and Sven"
2: Choose "I" or "Me" in a list or pair as if it were not in a list or pair. "I was a speedboat" rather than "Me was a speedboat;" therefore "Sven and I was a speedboat" rather than "Sven and me was a speedboat"
3: Conjugate the verb acting on a list or pair as if it were plural, i. e. substitute the collective pronoun and then conjugate. "We were a speedboat" rather than "We was a speedboat;" therefore "Sven and I were a speedboat" rather than "Sven and I was a speedboat"
**BUT**You'll notice that above I put " 'rules' " in scare quotes. The reason I did this, and what prescriptivist teachers forget, is that they are not rules, but merely recommendations.
Grammar is not physics, nor is it mathematics.
There is no such thing as "correct" grammar.
There is standard grammar, formal grammar, or recommended grammar, but it is important to remember that these standards are entirely
arbitrary.The only thing that makes one form more correct than another is that someone somewhere wrote it down in a book that that was "the rule."
In Physics, E=mc
2 because E=mc
2. Einstein didn't decide that, he derived it, and it's the same whether you're in England, Wales, New England or New South Wales. That's not what happens with grammar. "The rule" in grammar is made up, and it may be different depending on where you live and what standard you use.
This is why we've been going 'round and 'round about this. There is no right answer, just different standards.