SC - Participle/Direct Objects(Manhattan Flash Card Doubt)

[goelmohit2002]

Hi All,

In the Manhattan SC flash cards available at:

http://www.manhattangmat.com/pdf/FlashC ... e_2009.pdf

page#96....

the sentence given is
"Us attending the conference is dependent on our pilot receiving clearance to take off."

Flash cards say the above is wrong....because "This question is about participles and verb tense. In this sentence, "attending" and "receiving" are participles, and take possessive nouns and pronouns, not direct objects."

Can someone please tell what does Manhattan meant to say here ?

The same is corrected as

"Our attending the conference is dependent on our pilot’s receiving clearance to take off."

[goelmohit2002]

Can Moderator please move this to "General Verbal or Manhattan Strategy guide forum"...

By mistake I posted on the GPrep folder.

[hema.jce]

I had the same doubt.. This is what I understood
Participles - those 'verb+ing' and 'verb+ed' words - can not refer to subject or object pronouns/nouns . They can only refer to possessive nouns/pronouns

sub he/we
obj him/us
possessive his/our

Try to substitute he and his in the original sentence, it is much easier to understand..hope it helped!

[vikram4689]

No, this notion is not correct ........
Read Ron Purewal's explanation at
post18293.html#p18293

[jnelson0612]

vikram, thank you for the link.