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  1. Lest they do anything before we.
  1. Lest they do anything before us.

One of my students, for their creative writing coursework, phrased his sentence as shown in quote 1, but I have a confusion as to which (1 or 2) is more grammatically appropriate, and the literary device used in the first sentence, if any.

Andrew Leach
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Robinson
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I would say the second one.

The first one seems to lacks a do. in the end. It should be

Lest they do anything before we do.

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Bruno
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