•March 24, 2021•
By Jim Baumann
NP Guest Writer

Shortly before Thanksgiving, reader Lloyd Thomas sent me a question:
“I am a bit confused in my 85-year-old brain about one short paragraph (in Grammar Moses) in Sunday’s paper: ‘Stan took a swipe at me for me having explained our policy ...’ The use of the second ‘me’ is a bit clumsy, I think, and/or awkward. In fact, the second ‘me’ could be left out of the sentence altogether. Would it be wrong to say that what is wrong is a failure to use a possessive with a gerund?“
Dearest Lloyd,
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