The following was posted on an Internet message board by EnglishTeacher702: "I am looking forward to my husband and I's first trip." So June Casagrande, a journalist, said that even though it is difficult to verify whether EnglishTeacher702 is truly an English teacher, she most likely is. "Most English teachers know very little about grammar" Casagrande wrote in her July 14th 2012 Albany Times Union article entitled "World Wide Web of Grammar Errors." Casagrande said she could not find a grammar rule about when two or more people possess something jointly and a pronoun substitutes one of the names. However, I found information at the following website:
http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/qanda/data/faq/topics/PossessivesandAttributives.html?old=PossessivesandAttributives01.html
According to the aforementioned website, EnglishTeacher702 should have written "I am looking forward to my husband's and my first trip."
I didn't know the rule, but I would have guessed it correctly. Like other issues with compounds, just take out "my husband's" and you would say " . . . my first trip." Sounds like hypercorrection to me, though "I's" is definitely not grammatical!
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