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Correct: She and her friend came over.

              Incorrect: I invited he and his wife.
         If we remove and his wife, we're left with the ungrammatical I invited he.
              Correct: I invited him and his wife.

              Incorrect: Bill asked my sister and I.
         If we remove my sister and, we're left with the ungrammatical Bill asked I.
              Correct: Bill asked my sister and me.

         Rule 13. If two people possess the same item, and one of the joint owners is written as a pronoun,
         use the possessive form for both.

              Incorrect: Maribel and my home
              Incorrect: Mine and Maribel's home
              Correct: Maribel's and my home
              Incorrect: he and Maribel's home

              Incorrect: him and Maribel's home
              Correct: his and Maribel's home

              Incorrect: you and Maribel's home
              Incorrect: yours and Maribel's home
              Correct: Maribel's and your home

         Note: As the above examples demonstrate, when one of the co-owners is written as a pronoun,
         use possessive adjectives (my, your, her, our, their). Avoid possessive
         pronouns (mine, yours, hers, ours, theirs) in such constructions.

         NOTE
         Do not combine a subject pronoun and an object pronoun in phrases like her and I or he and me.
         Whenever and or or links an object pronoun (her, me) and a subject pronoun (he, I), one of those

         pronouns will always be wrong.
              Incorrect: Her and I went home.
              Correct: She and I went home. (She went and I went.)
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