"The fact of it being ..." vs "the fact of its being ..." Which one of the following is correct/preferred?     This process is devised in such a way that it works automatically   while always revealing to the user the fact of it/its being   intact.   Both "the fact of it being ..." and "the fact of its being ..." can be frequently found on the web. But perhaps one should be correct/preferred.
"...his parents' dream of *him* achieving a Cambridge degree." What is the function of "him" here? I have a problem analysing this sentence from the point of finite/nonfinite clauses, clause elements and their functions:     He does not want to destroy his parents' dream of him achieving a Cambridge degree.   I am especially interested in the: dream of him achieving a Cambridge degree.  I know that 'achieving a Cambridge degree' is a non-finite -ing participle clause. However what is its function? And what is the function of 'of him'? Is it a postmodification?
I have some long URLs which doesn't contain special "line break characters" like "-" or "/". How can I automatically break these URLs?  \documentclass{scrreprt}  \usepackage[ngerman]{babel}                     \usepackage[latin1]{inputenc}                 \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} \usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex} \usepackage{url} \usepackage{dingbat}  % for \carriagereturn symbol \makeatletter \g@addto@macro{\UrlBreaks}{\UrlOrds} \g@addto@macro{\UrlBreaks}{% \do\/\do\d% } \makeatother  \begin{filecontents}{bachelorarbeit_lit.bib} @ONLINE{java96,     author = {{Joe Black}},     title = {Foobar 1.0},     year = {1996},     month = {1},     url = {http://www.aaa.bb.cccc.dh/uploads/dddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddddd.pdf},     urldate = {2011-03-02},     sortname = {Sun},     keywords = {www} } \end{filecontents}  \bibliography{bachelorarbeit_lit}  \begin{document} Test \cite{java96} \printbibliography \end{document}   edit  I don't know why but it still doesn't work. 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