Timeline for What's this syntax called: "Him being the nice person he is, helped her."?
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| May 24, 2017 at 17:07 | vote | accept | ABC | ||
| May 24, 2017 at 6:10 | answer | added | Sven Yargs | timeline score: 3 | |
| May 24, 2017 at 6:09 | history | edited | Sven Yargs |
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| May 3, 2017 at 3:18 | history | edited | user50720 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jun 20, 2016 at 0:50 | comment | added | ABC | Oh okay, captain obvious. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 23:23 | comment | added | Jim | And therefore the construction is called an error... | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 21:57 | comment | added | herisson | “He, being the nice person he is, helped her out" is correct. I believe “him being the nice person he is, he helped her out” is also correct (an example of the "accusative absolute"), but “Him being the nice person he is, helped her out” is not correct as it lacks a grammatical subject. | |
| Jun 19, 2016 at 21:55 | history | asked | ABC | CC BY-SA 3.0 |