champunique  +  97056 Sat, 07 May 05 01:42 PM Hi Teachers, Will you please help me. Which one in following sentence{HE or HIM} is grammitically correct? ''This company has no objection to HE/HIM joining in other company'' i found ''HE'' in one of the clearance certificate of my friend. champunique Joined on Sun, Apr 3 2005 New Member 09

	victorycountry  +  97062 Sat, 07 May 05 02:10 PM Hi, It's "Him". It has to be an object after a preposition. The word "he" is a subject and therefore it can't be "he". victorycountry Joined on Sat, Oct 16 2004 Full Member 313 Prepositions

	temico  +  97072 Sat, 07 May 05 02:39 PM To victorycountry, How about this sentence, "This company has no objection to HIS joining other company.'' Is it also wrong?? temico Joined on Thu, Apr 21 2005 Full Member 274

	victorycountry  +  97089 Sat, 07 May 05 03:27 PM Hi, temico. Please have a look here, His/Him victorycountry Grammar, Gerunds

	MrPedantic  +  97358 Sun, 08 May 05 04:34 PM Hello champers ''This company has no objection to HE/HIM joining in other company'' Quite apart from the he/him question, this sentence isn't correct. It should be either: a) 'This company has no objection to him joining another company.' or: b) 'This company has no objection to his joining another company.' Either a) or b) is fine. MrP MrPedantic Joined on Tue, Oct 12 2004 Veteran Member 12,592 ...opella forensis / adducit febris...

	temico  +  97476 Mon, 09 May 05 12:18 AM To MrP, Re: 'This company has no objection to his joining another company.' You are right in your corrections. I deleted the "in" in the sentence but forgot to change "other" to "another". When I realised my omission, it was too late because I couldn't edit my post. I wonder if you approve of posters referring to websites which have no bearing, whatsoever, to prove their points or to the validity of their arguments, thereby wasting the time of others?? temico

	MrPedantic  +  97488 Mon, 09 May 05 12:41 AM Hello Temico The edit button does disappear distressingly quickly, on occasion. On the question of the webpage, I hesitate to speak for another member, but I believe v/c was referring to the section headed 'Using Possessives with Gerunds'. I would guess that this was intended as a helpful response to your question about whether 'his' could be used instead of 'him'. Best wishes MrP MrPedantic Possessives, Gerunds

	temico  +  97496 Mon, 09 May 05 12:58 AM MrP, If you don't mind, I would like to state that "that helpful response" is equivalent to the reply, "Go and check with my mother." when you ask a girl if she was coming to a party or not!! temico

	MrPedantic  +  97505 Mon, 09 May 05 01:30 AM No one is obliged to offer help here, Temico; and no one is obliged to take what is offered. But even in the latter case, 'thank you' is the customary reply. MrP MrPedantic