Please help to see if the two sentences are correct?
*Regardless of being criticized by others, he thinks that I should keep on doing what I like to do.
*Regardless of being bullied in class, his mother insists that he has to go to school every day.
I am wondering if the sentence is grammatical when the subject of V-ing after "regardless of" is different from the subject in the main clause.
Best Answer
As you suspect, these sentences are not formally correct (although they will certainly be understood and accepted in casual writing or speech), because their subjects are clearly the subjects of the subordinate clauses, not the subjects of the main clauses.
You may correct the sentences by moving the gerund clauses to points where the connection with the subject is more easily perceived. Here I place them after the clauses modified:
The gerund clauses could also be moved to points in front of the clauses they modify (after the subordinator that, so its clear that it is the subordinate clause which is modified) but this is rather stiff: