I came across the following sentence in a workbook:
There was a possibility of ... (he) going to England.
The book says the answer is his, not him.
Would him be grammatically incorrect? If so, why?
I came across the following sentence in a workbook:
There was a possibility of ... (he) going to England.
The book says the answer is his, not him.
Would him be grammatically incorrect? If so, why?
Prescriptive grammars long taught that his was correct there and him was incorrect, the goal being to educate the him (dative) + participle construction out of existence.
Kids would go to school saying a chance of him going to London and graduate, knuckles bloody, saying a chance of his going to London.