How can you make the a gerund refer to a person?
How can you make the a gerund refer to a person?
I cannot explain what I mean exactly but I can show example:
It can happen without doing anything.
Who is expected to perform the "doing" here? Is it it or it's I? or maybe they?
Well now can I do something like this:
It can happen without us doing anything.
or
It can happen without our doing anything. // This doesn't sound okay to me but still I want to see your opinion
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BoSsSy Who is expected to perform the "doing" here? Is it it or it's I? or maybe they?
- BoSsSy Who is expected to perform the "doing" here?
- Is it it or it's I?
- or maybe they?
- It's assumed to be anybody .
- It can happen without anybody doing anything.
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BoSsSyWho is expected to perform the "doing" here? Is it it or it's I? or maybe they?
It's assumed to be anybody.
It can happen without anybody doing anything.
BoSsSyIt can happen without our doing anything.
That's OK, grammatically.
0BoSsSyHow can you make {the a}??? gerund refer to a person?
You mean this: How do you express the subject of a gerund clause?
In formal writing you use the possessive case:
I don't object to [Fred's going there with his friends].
In informal writing you use the objective case:
I don't ob
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