Timeline for his being vs being
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| Apr 30, 2019 at 15:14 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @Kumarsadhu: yes, that is grammatical. Many people would put a comma after "mother". | |
| Apr 30, 2019 at 10:48 | comment | added | Kumar sadhu | "Seeing her mother the calf starts to graze." Is the sentence correct? | |
| Dec 10, 2017 at 19:07 | comment | added | Colin Fine | @ram: As subject "His being a w-k s surprised me"; as direct object "I took into account his being a w-k s" (not a good example, I can't think of a better one); indirect object "I spoke about his being a w-k s"; as object of preposition, "Despite his being a w-k s, ... ". These are all somewhat literary: many people would say "him being .. ", and in ordinary speech most people would recast the sentence to avoid this nominalisation: "I was surprised that he was .. ."; "Even though he was ... " etc. | |
| Dec 10, 2017 at 11:13 | comment | added | kumar | can you give me some contexts in which "his being" is used? | |
| Dec 10, 2017 at 10:35 | history | answered | Colin Fine | CC BY-SA 3.0 |