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by ankita1709 » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:04 am
A: Shost's Fourth Symphony had hardly entered rehearsals when the political climate turned against the composer and made his having the piece performed impossible
B: Shost's Fourth Symphony had hardly entered rehearsals when the political climate turned against the composer and made him having the piece performed impossible

Which one is right..
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by sgarnepudi » Tue Jun 05, 2012 10:34 am
Its B.
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by ankita1709 » Tue Jun 05, 2012 11:24 am
sgarnepudi wrote:Its B.
Actually its A
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by confuse mind » Tue Jun 05, 2012 6:43 pm
You use possessive before the gerund and thus A

e.g.,
Please pardon my coming late to the office. - correct
Please pardon me coming late to the office. - wrong
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by 1947 » Tue Jun 05, 2012 9:16 pm
some thing new ....can you please point to some source explaining this in detail.
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by avik.ch » Sun Jun 10, 2012 9:08 pm
Indeed, A is the correct one - in strict grammatical sense.

Shost's Fourth Symphony - is a possessive case noun so in order to refer with a pronoun we need a possesive case pronoun : "his"

But please refer this two link :

https://www.whiterose.org/dr.elmo/blog/a ... 03548.html
https://www.cjr.org/resources/lc/posnoun.php

Regarding (possesive + gerund) - refer this :

https://www.dianahacker.com/bedhandbook6 ... erund.html


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by [email protected] » Mon Jun 11, 2012 1:13 am
A: Shost's Fourth Symphony had hardly entered rehearsals when the political climate turned against the composer and made his having the piece performed impossible
B: Shost's Fourth Symphony had hardly entered rehearsals when the political climate turned against the composer and made him having the piece performed impossible


The OA should be an A. no doubt on this. Many people do not know this fact, but there is a difference between a proper noun and its apostrophe usage. An apostrophe cannot use the direct pronouns like him or he or she. It has to use the pronoun in the apostrophe itself i.e his/her etc.etc.

This thing is explained in the parameter as elipses. This thing is known as elipses!!!

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by jimmyjimmy » Sat Jun 16, 2012 6:18 am
never knew this rule, thanks ..
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