Grammar

Congo

Suggest improvements for the highlighted problem areas: Panga and me took some tourists on a singing tour of the Congo. I steered the boat while Panga strummed on his guitar and watched for crocodiles. At Malebo Pool our tourists reacted with frightened grimaces to me singing. They asked Panga and I to humor them with a non-musical tour. We obliged them until we came upon some rough rapids. Here, several of the tourists were surprised when they heard my singing a solo. But they were too worried by the approaching cataracts to complain. Answer: - Pronoun Case: Verbal - Sometimes it may look like a gerund, but is instead a verbal. Our previous examples, slightly modified, place the pronoun in front of a verbal, and so do not require the possessive case: She heard him begging for attention. I imagined us winning the race. Panga noticed them rowing his boat. Which brings us to another error in the opening paragraph: Here, several of the tourists were surprised when they heard my singing a solo. Here singing is not a gerund or a noun. It is a verbal, and the pronoun is now the object of the verb heard preceding it. Therefore, the objective case is required: Here, several of the tourists were surprised when they heard me singing a solo.

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