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Slip-Ups (The use of personal pronouns)

Slip-Ups (The use of personal pronouns)

Last week we looked at the order in which we arrange the personal pronouns if we have to use any two or all three pronouns in a sentence.
We said many people don't know that the personal pronouns --- I, YOU and HE/SHE/IT --- are not arranged any how, and that whenever you have to use any two of them or all three in a sentence, it should be the third person HE/SHE taking precedence over the second person YOU and the first person I, while the second person YOU also takes precedence over the first person I.
A reader drew my attention to the fact that he had seen in the Bible the verse:
I AND MY FATHER ARE ONE
which clearly goes against the principle of the third person taking precedence over the first person, as explained in my discussions.
The reader is right; there is a verse like that in the Bible, and I appreciate his concern that that verse goes against the principle concerning the arrangement of the personal pronouns.
Indeed, there is another ins

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