Me and my friend, Tim, are gonna predict the winners of the next dancing with the stars!
I found this sentence from a book.
I wonder why we don’t use “I and my friend” since I think it must be the subject of “are gonna predict”
Answer
It can be a subject, but only in the sense that people can use incorrect grammar. It isn't correct grammar, for the reason you correctly state.
The correct usage is "My friend Tim and I are going to predict[...]". So you are correct, except common usage is to place the self last in the list, preceded by other pronouns, and putting any nouns first. So "My mother, Jane, he and I will get together tonight" is the typical order. (Note that in this sentence, my mother and Jane are two different people. If Jane were my mother, the sentence would read "My mother Jane, he and I will get together tonight." It's interesting how much a comma can change a meaning.)
On the other hand, it is the sort of thing that young people say to exasperate their elders. :)
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