[Grammar] He along with ME/I is playing football.

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This is not my homework.

I am trying to understand if we use subject form or object form in such sentences.

He along with ME/I is playing football.
He unlike ME/I is playing football.
He guided by ME/I is playing football.
He rather than ME/I is playing football.
He accompanied by ME/I is playing football.
He in addition to ME/I is playing football.
He as well as ME/I is playing football.

Thanks in advance.
 
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None of those sentences is correct.

After prepositions (along with/unlike/by/to/for), we always use an object.
 
None of these are natural. Say He and I are playing football.
 
what about this one?

He as well as ME/I is playing football.
 
No. That doesn't work.
 
And what about this?
He, no less than I is to blame.
 
And what about this?
He, no less than I is to blame.

Yes, that's a correct sentence but it sounds very formal and old-fashioned. And it needs a comma after I.
 
Yes, that's a correct sentence but it sounds very formal and old-fashioned. And it needs a comma after I.
A million native speakers would never utter that sentence in their entire lifetimes.
 
A million native speakers would never utter that sentence in their entire lifetimes.
I think you could safely multiply that number by 300. That would leave 60 million who might say it, which I think is still too high.
 
We might say "He is no less to blame than I [am]". I would use "He is as much to blame as I [am]".
 
I know it, but I am learning British Grammar in its classic form.
 
What do you consider to be its "classic form"? Why don't you want to learn how to speak English how native speakers use it?
 
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