please excuse me being late. correct the sentence
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In the sentence Please excuse my being late! the object of the verb excuse is the verbal noun being late. ... Being the noun object it takes the possessive my to indicate who owns the being late. The gerund phrase with the adjectival possessive form of the pronoun is correct.