Question

monday, january 26ths \grammar do now\ question 1 of 10 if the blue text contains an error, click to fix it. yondu was surprised by you showing up so late for his birthday party. submit answer report a problem

Explanation:

In the sentence "Yondu was surprised by you showing up so late for his birthday party", the correct form should be "your" instead of "you" because we need a possessive pronoun to show that the "showing up" action belongs to "you". The structure "your showing up" is a gerund phrase where "your" is the possessive modifier of the gerund "showing".

Answer:

The error in the blue text "you" should be corrected to "your". So the fixed sentence is: "Yondu was surprised by your showing up so late for his birthday party."