<p>“Explaining modern art is impossible, partly because of its complexity but largely because of its rapidly changing?”</p>
<p>i can’t grasp this possessive and gerund idea could you give me more examples :P</p>
<p>Now that I look at the sentence as a whole with the substitution of “its rapidly changing,” I realize that this is not correct. “rapidly” would need to be an adjective, “rapid” in this case. (This is because “changing” is a noun and needs an adjectival modifier.)</p>
<p>The concept of gerunds and their need for possessive pronouns as modifiers is still valid, however. Here are some examples:</p>
<p>“Do not blame me for him talking!” is wrong. “talking” is a gerund here; gerunds are nouns, and nouns need possessive pronoun modifiers. Thus, the sentence should be, “Do not blame me for his taking!”</p>
<p>Similarly, “I don’t like them blaming all of us for him being too hungry” should be “I don’t like their blaming all of us for his being too hungry.”</p>
<p>So if we were to treat gerunds as verbs(which i understand there not) we would think of the “subject” has to be in possessive form and back to reality since gerunds are nouns we would have to treat their pronouns, as adjectives? so they have to be in the possessive form? yes?</p>
<p>Thinking about the possessive pronouns preceding gerunds as adjectives does give the proper result.</p>