<p>Hi, I'm an ESL student.Here is my problems:</p>
<p>in spite of "its" being regarded or in spite of "it" being regarded?
After a prepositional phrase is a noun,so is the second one correct?</p>
<p>another problem is :
"Residents of Chicago have" just as much right to complain about the cold as "residents of Minneapolis" ( do)
do i need a (do) there since i'm comparing the action of these 2</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>1.) In spite of it being regarded…
–“Its” is a possessive pronoun; nothing was being possessed by “it”. If it confuses you, try replaced “its” with another possessive pronoun and see if it works: “In spite of your/mine/their being regarded”…doesn’t make sense, right?</p>
<p>2.) Formally, it should read, " Residents of Chicago (have) just as much right to complain about the cold as the residents of Minneapolis (have)." Parallelism; you can’t compare HAVING something to DOING something.</p>
<p>1/ If i see the phrase “being regarded” as a gerund which is a noun, replacing “it” by “its” makes sense, yes?</p>
<p>2/ That question is in Barron’s SAT reading workbook, their answer doesn’t have “have” after “Residents of Minneapolis”, so could that be their mistake?</p>
<p>1.) Do you mean “being” as in “human being”? It still would not be right because you need a helping verb after the noun. Can I see the full sentence? “Regarded” can function either as an adjective describing “it”, or as a verb (the “being” regarded something). However, a present continuous verb must follow the prepositional phrase “In spite of…” (“in spite of its being regarding someone”). </p>
<p>2.) In that case, I’m not quite sure. What does the book say the correct answer is? .-.;</p>