Her and I?

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Is this sentence correct?"Her and I, we agree on that."I am confused about whether I should use 'she and I' instead of 'her and I'...can you tell me what the grammatical rule for this situation is? Thanx

Yoong Liat · Accepted Answer

She agrees on that.
I agree on that.
We agree on that.
She and I agree on that.

Thus: She and I, we agree on that.

You wouldn't say "Her agree on that", would you?

Kooyeen · Answer

Interesting question.
Me and her, we agree on that... is definitely common, but I wouldn't know what to say about the other options.
For some reason, "her and I" in that example doesn't sound too bad to me, and it might even sound better than "she and I". I don't know why, and I don't know what is actually more common.

If you are going to write that on some kind of English test or show it to some kind of English teacher, then I suggest you leave out the first part altogether and forget about this issue. Otherwise, I think all of the options I mentioned here are actually ok in speech in most dialects (and your example sounds very much like something you would actually "say" rather than "write").

Philip · Answer

Best, in my opinion: She and I agree on that.

Anonymous · Answer

It's "she and I"

an easy way to figure it out is to get rid of you in these cases. you would say "she agrees that" not "her agrees that".

it also works for trying to figure out if you should say 'i' or 'me'

Anonymous · Answer

oh, I take that back with your wording. I guess you're right "her, she agrees" right?

Anonymous · Answer

Why the great discussion? She and I are nominative and her and me are accusative. It is as simple as that.

Anonymous · Answer

easy peas ... say each individually:

SHE is going.

HER is going.

I am going.

ME is going.

Got the correct answers now?

Tamguatlay · Answer

I would write "She and I disagree on that."

She disagrees on that. I disagree on that.

Hence, "She and I disagree on that."

BillJ · Answer

"Her and I me, we agree on that."

It should be "Her and me".

This is an example of a kind of construction called left dislocation, where an additional constituent, i.e. the underlined noun phrase Her and me located to the left of the clause, serves as antecedent for the personal pronoun “we” in the clause (called the nucleus).

The NP Her and me is not a subject and hence does not have to comply with the usual rule requiring subject pronouns to be in the nominative case (She and I).

In fact the opposite is true here: the accusative case, Her and me is obligatory. Nominative She and I would be wrong. This may be attributed to the dislocation construction itself, which is characteristic of informal style.

The important thing about the additional NP is that it identifies the referent of we in the nucleus clause, we agree on that. In this case, the identity of the persons represented by Her and me in the dislocated NP would be established in the discourse, deictically for I and possibly by prior mention for her.

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