Pronoun Antecedent

[xavierakx]

Manhattan GMAT Sentence Correction warns about possessive nouns as poor antecedents for non-possessive pronouns.

I would like to know if the rule applies to the sentence below:

"The credit for my son's success goes to him alone."

him - A non-possessive pronoun.
But nothing else, other than 'my son', can be the antecedent here. I would therefore infer there is no ambiguity and the sentence is correct.

Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[jlucero]

While I agree that this is unambiguous, the pronoun here is incorrect based on an object pronoun referring to a possessive antecedent.

Wrong: The credit for my son's success goes to him alone.
Correct: The credit for my son's success is his alone.

I'm stealing this from another thread (possessive-pronouns-t11994.html):

"Jose's room is so clean that his mother praises him."
"his" can refer to "Jose's" because they are both possessive; however, "him" is a problem because an object pronoun cannot refer to a possessive.

"Jose keeps his room so clean that his mother praises him."
no problems here; both possessive and object pronouns ("his" and "him") can refer to a subject noun.

[xavierakx]

Thank you.

[jlucero]

Sure thing.