I as well as he am going to school. Is this statement correct?

Question:

I as well as he am going to school. Is this statement correct?

Here verb am is followed by he which is not supposed to be correct.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker:

It's true that the grammar sounds incorrect to my American ears. There are better ways to write the sentence, the best of which being as follows: "He and I are going to school."

However, I'm unsure that your sense is actually wrong in the strictest sense. You have a subject, "I," and a verb, "am going," which agrees with it. "As well as" is a copulative conjunction that has the unusual property of not affecting the verb, and "he" seems to be in the correct case (nominative). "To school" is an adverbial phrase modifying the verb. It all seems perfectly fine in the abstract.

I think the reason that it sounds weird to me is that "as well as" is a little bit ambiguous in everyday usage -- is it a conjunction or a prepositional phrase?