she/her resigning
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She is wrong. Either: (a) the preposition "in" takes the accusative personal pronoun "her", or; (b) "resigning" is a noun (= resignation) and needs the possessive pronoun "her".
In both cases, "her"
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In both cases, "her"
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Although she is the subject of the gerund-participle 'resigning', the usual subject form 'she' cannot be used here. Both of the other two forms can, and both are common: 'me resigning' or 'my resigning', 'him resigning' or 'his resigning'. In the case of 'her' the two forms are the same.
Now, this has to be settled with respect to strictest rules (and not colloquial usage).She is wrong. Either: (a) the preposition "in" takes the accusative personal pronoun "her", or; (b) "resigning" is a noun (= resignation) and needs the possessive pronoun "her".
In both cases, "her"
Besides, what happens when we use: "Ben resigning" or "Ben's resigning"?
Furthermore, what is the sense like: 'her resigning' as one word/unit or 'her, resigning'?
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No it doesn't because, fortunately, "her" is the correct answer in either case. Ben has nothing to do with it (unless you're intending to start a new thread about Ben resigning).
But that old gerund/ive argument already has far too many threads devoted to it - just use the search button and you'll see.
Mr. Bradford, sir, in fact we can have a separate thread for 'me resigning', 'my resigning', or 'I resigning' too.
What say, entangledbank?
Go ahead, all I'm saying is that in this case 'she' is quite wrong, as would be 'I' 'they' or 'we'. There is no reason at all for a personal pronoun in the nominative case to be used here.