Thread:Grimmaniac/@comment-33034194-20180429025241/@comment-33034194-20180429034241

Hi Dan,

You mentioned the word noun  and that is precisely the reason why I changed him to his. Using his, rather than him, transforms "attacking" from present participle form of the verb to attack into the gerund (functionally the same as a noun). The current sentence structure is " noun, accompanied by verb ", which is a bit of a mismatch (hence why I edited it). Both words are indeed acceptable, but I believe the sentence structure makes more sense with his.

As for which sounds more natural, with his "attacking people" could be amended to "attacking of people". This would be perfectly fine and would likely help with the parsing of the sentence. Ironically, I did not make this change as it sounded less natural to me!

Alex