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This grammar mistake drives me crazy and I’m
seeing it more and more.
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It’s using ‘her’ or ‘his’ when you should be using ‘she’ or ‘he’.
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‘Her and her brother left the party.’
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Now, let’s take out the ‘her brother’ and
we’re left with, ‘Her left the party.’
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No, that’s wrong. ‘She left the party’. The subject
of the sentence: use ‘she’.
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A clue for this, if it’s beginning your sentence, you probably want to use ‘she’.
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‘She and her brother left the party.’ But if we say, ‘They took her and her brother home.’
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Now, they’re the object, they’re not the subject, ‘her’ is okay.
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Take out ‘her brother’, ‘They took her home’,
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yes, it works. ‘They’ is the subject, ‘her
and her brother’ is grammatically correct.
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