Is it really true that you can't say "I've lost a shoe"?

"The pallid etchings of a timorous president were not his" And then you front "his". Does this help explain why the sentence is grammatical?

People do use the word anyways, as meaning the same as anyway, but it is still considered nonstandard.

He saw something that maybe was a ghost. He saw something that was maybe a ghost. It was maybe a ghost. It maybe was a ghost. Are all these ok? Any difference in meaning?

I was wrong in something I said in my post. The second one can't mean "the way I tell you what to do." If the sentence had been "...you don't mind my telling you", then "...they way I tell you" would have been a possible interpretation of the

"me telling you what to do" can only mean "that I tell you what to do." "my telling you what to do" can mean both "that I tell you what to do" and "the way I tell you what to do." Some people (they are few, though) prefer the second option

So it is a matter of where you originate? What about Americans? Is there a difference between them and British people? My teacher marked it as wrong when I wrote it without the preposition, but maybe he was wrong then.

This is the place where the problem originates /from/. Is 'from' required?

With implies that GGG has been used as a tool. By implies that GGG has done the report more on its own.

Both are ok. The only time (at least that I know of) you can't use the second kind of construction is when the thing somebody is giving away is expressed with a pronoun. For instance: *Send the old man it.