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Anonymous Posted 12 years ago
Grammar
pronouns
Please can someone advise me on which of these sentences is correct and why?
He has made progress due to his having received extra help.
He has made progress due to him having received extra help.
He has made progress due to his having received extra help.
He has made progress due to him having received extra help.
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Anonymous He has made progress due to his having received extra help. I'd use that one. The pronoun subject of a non-finite participial clause is cast in the possessive case.
- Anonymous He has made progress due to his having received extra help.
- I'd use that one.
- The pronoun subject of a non-finite participial clause is cast in the possessive case.
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AnonymousHe has made progress due to his having received extra help.I'd use that one.
The pronoun subject of a non-finite participial clause is cast in the possessive case.
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Both are grammatical. In participial clauses functioning as complement (here to the preposition to), the subject pronoun may take either case-form, the genitive/possessive being the formal variant, accusative the informal. However, neither is needed in your sentence. You could just say He has made progress due to having received extra help, with the subject understood.
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I was asking about you just the other day, Anon. How have you been? Are you in hiding? 
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Hey Philip,
No, not exactly in hiding — I just don't have access to my account anymore, or even want it at the moment. But from time to time I get an urge to drop by anyway.
No, not exactly in hiding — I just don't have access to my account anymore, or even want it at the moment. But from time to time I get an urge to drop by anyway.
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