11/21: laughing

...about gerunds and their subjects in my office with a student.  In an earlier session, I had told him that in formal English subjects of gerunds are put in the possessive form.  In today's session, we were going over part of his paper in which I saw a gerund with a non-possessive subject, so I started to flag it.  He immediately showed me his computer screen and said something like, "Look!  I just changed that while waiting to talk with you!"