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[sabrinawaiz]

Dear teachers,

Could you please check the correctness (grammatically) of the following sentences?

[pugachevV]

I, and six of my friends, have formed a company.

I, along with six of my friends, formed a company.

I, myself, and six of my friends have formed a company.

You can only use our friends if the preceding context mentions some other person, and these are your mutual friends. Without context, you need to make sure that the possessive pronoun agrees (in number) with the person(s) who is (are) the possessor.

If you are using myself a reflexive pronoun to give emphasis, you need to say I, myself.
Using myself alone, as in your 3rd sentence, seems "prissy, horrible, and a genteelism" (to quote William Zinsser).

[sabrinawaiz]

Thank you pugachevV.

Sabrina

[pugachevV]

Bitteschoen.