Pronouns before the Gerunds & Infinitives

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Both the infinitives and the gerunds can be both the subject and the complement of a sentence. When an infinitive or a gerund come as the subject of a sentence, it doesn’t usually take any other word with it. However, when they come as a complement, they often take other parts of speech with them. Some specific transitive verbs require an indirect object (usually person) followed by the infinitives to complete a sentence.
Those specific verbs are:

allow ask beg convince expect
instruct invite order persuade prepare
remind urge want permit promise

   
If the complements of these verbs are the infinitives, they must take an indirect object (person) before them in the form of noun or object pronoun.

Example:

Incorrect: You allowed him going there after what he has done!
Correct:  You allowed him to go there after what he has done!
Incorrect: He asked me helping him in this project.
Correct: He asked me to help him in this project.
Incorrect: I did not beg her giving me her number.
Correct: I did not beg her to give me her number.
Incorrect: He convinced me working with the president.
Correct: He convinced me to work with the president.
Incorrect: John expects you staying in that hotel.
Correct: John expects you to stay in that hotel.
Incorrect: I instructed him talking with her.
Correct: I instructed him to talk with her.
Incorrect: I urge you going there.
Correct: I urge you to go there.
Incorrect: He invited me coming to his town.  
Correct: He invited me to come to his town.
Incorrect: He ordered me bringing the keys for him.
Correct: He ordered me to bring the keys for me. 
Incorrect: My father permitted me going to the pilgrimage.
Correct: My father permitted me to go to the pilgrimage.
Incorrect: He persuaded me using the smartphone.
Correct: He persuaded me to use the smartphone.
Incorrect: I have prepared her living in the real world.
Correct: I have prepared her living in the real world.
Incorrect: I promised him reaching there on time.
Correct: I promised him to reach there on time.
Incorrect: He wants me being the best batsman in the team.
Correct: He wants me to be the best batsman in the team.
Incorrect: He reminded me completing the task.  
Correct: He reminded me to complete the task.  


However, 
other transitive verbs can be followed by a gerund as a complement but it must precede by a possessive adjective. So, pronoun can come before a gerund in the form of possessive. 

 

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