Timeline for Correctness of "of my sending the picture" [duplicate]
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| Dec 21, 2014 at 2:36 | history | closed |
tchrist♦ Tim Lymington Edwin Ashworth Daniel Drew |
Duplicate of When is a 'gerund' supposed to be preceded by a possessive adjective/determiner?, "...his parents' dream of *him* achieving a Cambridge degree." What is the function of "him" here? [duplicate] | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 20:11 | comment | added | Edwin Ashworth | Also answered at Analysing clause elements and their function | |
| Dec 20, 2014 at 18:24 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Dec 20, 2014 at 18:21 | history | edited | please delete me | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 20, 2014 at 18:14 | comment | added | John Lawler |
My sending the picture is grammatical, and falutes slightly higher, but with pronouns there are many idioms. Gerund clauses have two complementizers: the normal Acc-ing complementizer (without him telling me), and the Poss-ing complementizer (without his telling me). Both are correct, both are common, but Acc-ing is somewhat more common in practice.
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| Dec 20, 2014 at 18:09 | history | edited | tchrist♦ |
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| Dec 20, 2014 at 18:07 | comment | added | John Lawler | Yes, but of my sending the picture is not a constituent; of goes with approve to form a transitive verb. The gerund clause my sending the picture is the direct object of approve of. | |
| S Dec 20, 2014 at 18:05 | history | suggested | The Guy with The Hat | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Dec 20, 2014 at 17:58 | review | First posts | |||
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| Dec 20, 2014 at 17:57 | history | asked | Claudia Riechelmann Malik | CC BY-SA 3.0 |