“Why is the whole world worked up about my getting married? I’m having a great time and I want to enjoy it.” - Gisele Bündchen
Gisele has correctly used a possessive pronoun with a gerund. In the first sentence, she has paired the first person possessive pronoun “my” with the gerund phrase “getting married.”
A gerund [...]
“No matter what anybody says about my being a father, they have no idea how I am with my kids. That’s my number one priority - my children.” - Kevin Federline in Life and Style
Kevin has followed the grammatical rule that requires a possessive pronoun or the possessive form of a noun to precede a [...]
When a noun or pronoun precedes a gerund in a sentence, the noun or pronoun must be in the possessive form. A common error in informal speech, and one that is commonly seen on standardized examinations, is the use of the objective form of a noun or pronoun that precedes a [...]
