@userr2684291 I am not sure about the choice of pronouns. That is why I tried to figure out what is commonly used and to do so I made corpus search. There I saw only "him" is used in such construction and that to very small hit.
I think if we leave aside the pronoun issue the sentence is correct, and similar to the following one:
> His hands gripping the door, he let out a volley of curses.
I personally believe both "he" and "his" is correct, but not "him".
@Man_From_India You might wanna extend it to include all sorts of pronouns and use a larger corpus.
@Man_From_India Well, I think you're wrong, especially so given what you've found. And I think his would never work.
@Man_From_India Grammatical correctness often doesn't matter.
Anyway, from what little grammar terminology I know, this would be the supplement use of gerund–participials, so if you're interested, you can start there in CGEL.
@userr2684291 Yeah, it's pretty easy to imagine an American saying "US dollars" to preemptively avoid confusion. Like someone from the Federation entering uncharted space territory.
John being a good teacher, his son never failed.
This is a grammatically correct sentence. John being a good teacher is a Gerund_Participial clause (non-finite clause) with John is the explicit subject of the non-finite clause. This clause is a subordinate clause anchored to the matrix claus...
> The sight that makes me pinch myself Is Urals in the Spring: As if an overzealous elf Commanded by a king Or by the President himself Applied his magic skills And where the blizzard used to groan The goldfinch spreads his trills
من زندگي را دوست دارم ولي از زندگي دوباره مي ترسم دين را دوست دارم ولي از كشيش ها مي ترسم قانون را دوست دارم ولي از پليس مي ترسم عشق را دوست دارم ولي از زن ها مي ترسم
John being a good teacher, his son never failed.
This is a grammatically correct sentence. John being a good teacher is a Gerund_Participial clause (non-finite clause) with John is the explicit subject of the non-finite clause. This clause is a subordinate clause anchored to the matrix claus...
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