Direction: In the following question, a part of the sentence is underlined.…

Concept: English has a fixed convention for ordering personal pronouns that appear together as a compound subject, and the required order depends on the tone of the statement. In a neutral or pleasant statement, the convention places the pronouns in second-third-first person order: "You, he and I." In a statement that admits fault, blame, or a mistake, the convention flips to first-second-third person order: "I, you and he."

Application: The sentence states that the group "are to be blamed for the entire fiasco," which is a fault-admitting statement. Under the fault-admission convention, the required order is first person, then second person, then third person: "I, you and he." This is the corrected form of the underlined phrase.

Cross-check: Checking the remaining choices against the two orderings rules each of them out:

• "You, he and I" places the pronouns in second-third-first person order, the pattern used for neutral or pleasant statements, not one admitting fault.

• "You, I and he" places the pronouns in second-first-third person order, which matches neither the neutral nor the fault-admission convention.

• The original underlined phrase, "He, you, and I," places the pronouns in third-second-first person order, which also matches neither convention, so leaving it unchanged is not correct.

Result: Only "I, you and he" follows the first-second-third person ordering required for a fault-admitting sentence, so it is the correct replacement.