While, in the second sentence, the word preceding the gerund “being” is “him”. This is in the objective case. Both the sentences are correct to convey the same meaning. So, we can use either possessive case or objective case before gerunds. Examples: All depends on John/John’s comi...
It is only in the post-classical language that certain tendencies which had shown up already in Old Latin poetry become stronger and finally lead to a reanalysis of the gerundive and a split into two distinct syntactic constructions. The propositional meaning of the gerundive in ...