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Believer Posted 18 years ago
Grammar
possessing the gerund?
0 Hi, 02 br
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00 I have some questions about placing a possessive pronoun in front of a gerund. Please help. 02 br
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00 He loves meeting his friends. 02 br
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00 Sentence leading to my questions:I think the 'meeting her friends' is gerund. Although the context would be awkward, would I be able to place a possessive pronoun in front of it and how prevalent is it of putting a possessive pronoun in front of a gerund? 02 br
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00 I think it could be like giving the sense of possessing an action. I think many cases, it would be less awkward to rewrite the part involved, so the possessive pronoun is not used. 02 br
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00 He loves his meeting of his friends. 02 br
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00 Better to change into: 02 br
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00 He loves his times of meeting his friends. 0-
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00 I have some questions about placing a possessive pronoun in front of a gerund. Please help. 02 br
02 br
00 He loves meeting his friends. 02 br
02 br
00 Sentence leading to my questions:I think the 'meeting her friends' is gerund. Although the context would be awkward, would I be able to place a possessive pronoun in front of it and how prevalent is it of putting a possessive pronoun in front of a gerund? 02 br
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00 I think it could be like giving the sense of possessing an action. I think many cases, it would be less awkward to rewrite the part involved, so the possessive pronoun is not used. 02 br
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00 He loves his meeting of his friends. 02 br
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00 Better to change into: 02 br
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00 He loves his times of meeting his friends. 0-
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0 Both "He loves his meeting of his friends." and "He loves his times of meeting his friends." are awkward. Best to rewrite. 02 br
00 He loves when his friends meet. 02 br
00 He loves his friends' meetings. 02 br
00 He loves to meet with his friends. 02 br
00 or using the gerund: 02 br
00 He loves meeting with his friends. 0-
00 He loves when his friends meet. 02 br
00 He loves his friends' meetings. 02 br
00 He loves to meet with his friends. 02 br
00 or using the gerund: 02 br
00 He loves meeting with his friends. 0-
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1 i 00 >He loves when his friends meet. 02 i 02 br
00 This needs an "it": 02 br
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01 i 00 He loves 01 b 00 it 02 b 00 when his friends meet. 02 i 0-
00 This needs an "it": 02 br
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01 i 00 He loves 01 b 00 it 02 b 00 when his friends meet. 02 i 0-
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01 cite 10 Believer 12 cite 10 it could be like giving the sense of possessing an action. 12 blockquote10 It's not a matter of possessing the action. Not at all. It's simply a grammatical device for giving the action a subject, that is, a way of showing who is performing the action. But if the subject of the gerund is t
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0 > It's simply a grammatical device for giving the action a subject, that is, a way of showing who is performing the action. 02 br
00 Nicely put, Jim. 0-
00 Nicely put, Jim. 0-
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