The Case of the Noun or Pronoun with the Gerund

ings established, disputable, and illiterate.) If the reader keeps in mind that the instructions to the judges were to vote on actual usage rather than to give opinion of what usage should be, he will be less disposed to conclude that established, disputable, and illiterate as used in this monograph may be his guide in teaching. The fact that an expression is listed in the Leonard study as disputable is, according to the rules of voting, no authority for assuming that the voters themselves consider the

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