Timeline for What's the correct way to parse this sentence structure?
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| Aug 1, 2017 at 3:47 | comment | added | John Lawler | Neither my nor me is a nominative pronoun, and both are used as subjects of gerund clauses. The choice is up to the speaker. | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 3:02 | comment | added | Dog Lover | @JohnLawler I enjoyed that response. However, I was talking about using the pronoun "my" over "me". | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 2:38 | comment | added | John Lawler | @DogLover: Watching TV is not usually a problem if you don't do too much of it. | |
| Aug 1, 2017 at 1:15 | comment | added | Dog Lover | @JohnLawler What about my watching TV? | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 23:21 | comment | added | skratch | @Jim my intended meaning is the former. I think JohnLawler had the key terms I was missing: Gerunds do not appear with nominative pronoun subjects. | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 22:15 | comment | added | Jim | It could mean “let’s steer the conversation back to one about “me watching TV” or it could mean “let’s get our mode of operation back to one where I watch TV.” | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 20:04 | history | edited | skratch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 31, 2017 at 20:02 | comment | added | skratch | @JohnLawler I think your comment answers the heart of my question, although perhaps I chose a poorly formed sentence. | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 20:01 | comment | added | skratch | @BillJ how about "Let us return to discussing me watching TV?" | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 19:25 | answer | added | Golden Wood | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 19:12 | comment | added | Yosef Baskin | For what it's worth, doesn't back belong to get back more than to back to? The fact that we are looking at three choices does not make them more appealing than a redo, like "Get back to the part where John and I were watching TV." | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 19:11 | comment | added | John Lawler | Yes. The example is ill-chosen. If the question is whether to use I or me as the subject of a gerund, the answer is me. Gerunds do not appear with nominative pronoun subjects, though they do appear with objective and possessive subjects (just not both in the same clause). | |
| Jul 31, 2017 at 19:06 | comment | added | BillJ | It makes no sense to say "Let us get back to me watching TV"; same applies to your other examples. | |
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| Jul 31, 2017 at 19:03 | history | asked | skratch | CC BY-SA 3.0 |