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Anonymous Posted 17 years ago
Grammar

Grammar, pick the error one

I am depending on the medicine being delivered without delay. No error.

A B C D E

Which one is error?

The answer is B

It says B should be changed into medicine's, why?
  

Top answer

No reason for that. Study the subject of the gerund . The mistaken notion that a gerund is a complete noun has led to many people insisting that its subject should always be in a possessive form.

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  • No reason for that.
  • Study the subject of the gerund .
  • The mistaken notion that a gerund is a complete noun has led to many people insisting that its subject should always be in a possessive form.
  • That would lead to very un-English sentences like this: They insisted on English's being spoken.
  • Better: They insisted on English being spoken.
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No reason for that. Study the subject of the gerund . The mistaken notion that a gerund is a complete noun has led to many people insisting that its subject should always be in a possessive form. That would lead to very un-English sentences like this:

They insisted on English's being spoken. Better: They insisted on English being spoken.

Furthermore, the gerund is
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Thank you for replying.

I choose E because i take the sentence as:

I am depending on the medicine which was delivered without delay.

Then if we remove the relative pronoun, it should be:

I am depending on the medicine being delivered without delay.

or

I am depending on the medicine delivered without delay.
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AnonymousI choose E because i take the sentence as:

I am depending on the medicine which was delivered without delay.
That is your privilege. I side with those grammarians who say that the present participle being is exceptional in that it cannot be used as a relative pronoun equivalent even though the present participles of other v
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