"Your husband and you..."

Sorry, not to be picky, but “Your husband and you…” is not correct gramatically. In this case the first person had it been used is the word “I”. However, the writer did not refer to himself. He used only the second person (you) and the third person (your husband). The rule is this: When 2 or more personal pronouns/nouns in the singular number are connected by “and,” the second person precedes the first and third, and the third person precedes the first. In this case, since there is no first person, the second person (you) precedes the third person (your husband).

For example:
You and I (second precedes first)
You and your husband (second precedes third)
You and your husband and I (second precedes third precedes first)
and the obvious
Your husband and I (third precedes first)

Sorry - - too much sentence diagramming in my past…. :-)

But you are correct - I wasn’t paying attention to the spelling since the grammar issue had caught my attention….

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