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Grammar

Grammer

Can youn please tell which is correct and why

a) He and his wife
b) Him and his wife
c) His wife and him
d) His wife and he


Thank you for you help

Regards Colin
  

Top answer

"He and his wife" is correct. A complete sentence would contain or imply a verb, so you need to use the personal pronoun "he". g.

  • "He and his wife" is correct.
  • A complete sentence would contain or imply a verb, so you need to use the personal pronoun "he".
  • g.
  • He and his wife went for a walk.
  • e.
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"He and his wife" is correct. A complete sentence would contain or imply a verb, so you need to use the personal pronoun "he".

e.g. He and his wife went for a walk.

i.e. He went for a walk and his wife went for a walk - they went together. You would not say "Him went for a walk"

"Who went for a walk?" "He and his wife." (the verb phrase 'went for a walk' is unders
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Hi

I think The correct one is "a" because we are talking about a person without mention his name, so we used a pronoun instead of his name, which is called " subject pronoun". And when we want to mention someting belong to that person, we should use the " possessive pronouns" such (my,her,his,its,our,their,your) and all of these come before a noun. why we should we say "he" first i thi
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Hi
for more clarifying:
As i thought that "A" is the correct, i think also "D" also right, but the more common is "A", but if we discuss "B" and "C", they are not completed sentences, because as we know, these pronounses: (him, her, me, them, you, it, and us) should join before them "verb" as in case of possissive pronounses, that they take a noun after them.
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Jazz, I don't understand what you mean

"but if we discuss "B" and "C", they are not completed sentences, because as we know, these pronounses: (him, her, me, them, you, it, and us) should join before them "verb" as in case of possissive pronounses, that they take a noun after them."

'prononun' = singular
'pronouns' = plural.
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Hi
yeah that what I meant, so "b" and "c" not completed sentences, But "a" is correct because we began with "He" then "his wife", it means "his" refers to "he" right?
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He and his wife is correct

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While I appreciate the question and the debate, I can’t help but think that English is a difficult language if it requires this level of effort to resolve such an question.

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The sentence would be

my son is in town, we would like to bring him and his wife along

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