Can the gerund clause take a personal pronoun as its subject in “It’s no use (his?) crying over lost love”?

From a gram­mar book, I’ve have learned that a gerund clause can be op­tion­ally pre­ceded by a per­sonal pro­noun to show the log­i­cal sub­ject of the verb; that is, who­ever is do­ing the gerund’s ac­tion.
I’ve also learned that a pos­ses­sive per­sonal pro­noun is usu­ally more ac­cept­able here than a pro­noun in an­other gram­mat­i­cal case like those used for sub­jects or ob­jects of fi­nite clauses.

With gerund clauses, there’a a cer­tain struc­ture that runs like this:

1. It’s no use do­ing some­thing.

in which do­ing some­thing is the gerund clause and do­ing the gerund head­ing that clause.

My question is: Can we also add a pos­ses­sive pro­noun be­fore do­ing in that par­tic­u­lar struc­ture? So for ex­am­ple like this:

2. It’s no use his cry­ing over lost love.

Does it sound com­pletely nor­mal to use the pro­noun his there to say who’s do­ing that ac­tion?

If not, is there some other way of say­ing it that would be more com­mon and nat­u­ral-sound­ing to na­tive speak­ers?

Solution 1:

First, you wouldn't say

• It’s no use do­ing some­thing.

You'd say

• It’s no use do­ing anything.

instead. There's a negative in the sentence, which is kind of like having a snake in your tent; you want to keep an eye on what it does. What it does in this case is use a negative polarity item any under normal circumstances. Using some instead is grammatical, but raises a question about why some was used instead of the normal any.

Second, the idiomatic construction

• It's no use NP V-ing (Bill/Bill's/his/him/you/your doing it again)

means Bill, or he, or you, shouldn't do it again, in the opinion of the speaker. The V-ing part is a gerund complement clause, with a subject noun phrase and a verb phrase, just like any other clause. The big difference is that gerunds are untensed -- they don't take any other suffixes for tense; doing doesn't say when the doing happens. Untensed clauses can't take nominative pronouns (like I) for subject; gerund subjects can be either genitive (my) or objective (me), while infinitive subjects (infinitives are also tenseless) have to be objective.