His/Him

Its B.

sgarnepudi wrote:Its B.

Actually its A
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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

some thing new ....can you please point to some source explaining this in detail.
Thanks

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


Hope this helps !!

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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never knew this rule, thanks ..