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Rh {|
 * | Are you reading the letter?
 * Who was beating the child?
 * }
 * Who was beating the child?
 * }
 * }

If the object of the English present participle be a personal pronoun we cannot translate as in the above sentences, because the pronouns have no genitive case; hence instead of using the personal pronouns '''we must employ the possessive adjectives. Possessive adjectives must always precede the nouns which they qualify.'''

Note carefully the initial effects of the possessive adjectives on the verbal nouns after them.