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9 Dec 2022
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“Him not coming to the party was disappointing.”
Is the sentence grammatically correct? If right, what’s the kind of construction “him” served in it?
Can the “him” changed into “his”?
“Him not coming to the party was disappointing.”
Is the sentence grammatically correct? If right, what’s the kind of construction “him” served in it?
Can the “him” changed into “his”?
Is the sentence grammatically correct? If right, what’s the kind of construction “him” served in it?
Can the “him” changed into “his”?
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him and his can’t be interchanged, “his” is possessive yet nothing in this sentence shows possession
him and his can’t be interchanged, “his” is possessive yet nothing in this sentence shows possession
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@seoknois Thanks for your response and I harvested a lot! Can I understand in this way? “him” offers a active premise but actually served as the object, and the total part before the predication “was” is nominative, because there’s only one set of subject and evidently the part before “was” eventually makes the action happen.
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