At 08:23 AM 11/30/2008, Craig Hancock {N.B. this was not Craig's
sentence. He was responding to it.} wrote:
>. . . "I slipped my backpack off, and we sat down at one
>of the metal tables overlooking the pool, with him sipping his Mountain
>Dew and me groping for pen and paper." . . .
DD: Try what seems to me to be more correct; treat the '...ings' as
gerunds and stick in the possessive pronouns. "...his sipping . . .my
groping . . ." I am not a skilled grammarian, but it also sounds
correct to leave out the 'with' and change the pronouns to the
nominatives as subjects. ". . . pool, he sipping . . . I groping . . ."
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