I always thought of “your receiving” as more correct, therefore, more stuffy and official! Now said alternative “you receiving” though perhaps easier to understand has a rather common nuance to it, and so lacks what formal elegance can yet be readily found in “your receiving.”
I’m with you on what was always THOUGHT to be correct—“your receiving,” but I’m looking for the actual grammatical rule. I have a supervisor whose a stickler on proper grammar (as am I), and she just doesn’t trust me on this one. So I need to quote the rule to her! Thx for your post.
Gerund is always preceded by the possessive..although spoken English does not confirm itself to this rule
Eg:
I don’t mind your being stupid bandito, but you needn’t tell that to all the world.
NOT:
I don’t mind you being stupid bandito, but you needn’t tell that to all the world.
But clearly we make our very own rules here, free to debate as unresolved matter what general tone of formal speech suites you best: I always thought of “your receiving” as more correct, therefore, more stuffy and official! Now said alternative “you receiving” though perhaps easier to understand has a rather common nuance to it, and so lacks what formal elegance can yet be readily found in “your receiving.”
Isn’t there some juvenescent nanny site where the two of you can get together and jab each other with incestuous Cro-Magnon observations, and that torn & frayed K-12 etiquette—I suggest you go find it, because you won’t even last one fractional second where such bright & circumspect webfarers are wont to pass: I say your pimply-faced, nose-picking, stiff-necked grammar is just too rigidly pedantic to be germane, nor yet of good use to anyone here, and your positively brutal explanations sound more like a played-out broken record! Congratulations, ye newlywed Mr. & Mrs. Higgins, although your head-sickening routine may only rot in worm-ravaged hell!
Isn’t 16 just too young an age to marry?
Apropos, I warrant you that you’d make a HELLACIOUS, BEASTLY spouse!
Here’s a saying in my mother tongue which roughly goes like this,
The tranquility of the mountain is not beset by the barking of the dog
I learnt in my catechisms that only HEATHENS ROT IN HELL.
SO, IF I AM TO EVER MARRY, MY PRETTY WIFE AND I WOULD GO TO HEAVEN AND PLAY HARPS AND NOT ROT LIKE POOR MR.SOMEBODY-WHO-FANCIES-TO-BE-SOMEONE-HE-ISN’T IN SULPHUR AND BRIMSTONE
Who’s the next victim of your philippic?
I wonder what makes you think that it’s a skillfully devised prohibition..it’s rather irrelevant and shows your misunderstanding of scriptural values…it’s just the unfailing adjustment of nature
A Sluggy Sluggard will be attacked by want and then find himself unable to fend off a fierce onslaught,will find it rather challenging to enforce surrender. For want, is a fierce and battle-hardened ENEMY.That’s what it means.Proof enough for a mind that isn’t precisely incisive
And how right was the Good Lord when he said that people will misrepresent him!
And Christ…if I were only allowed to thwart all your attempts at sarcasm which I’m more than willing to….I would incriminated for the use of language that does not exactly behoove this forum
