So instead of saying:
All depends on Ron winning a scholarship.
we should say this:
All depends on Ron's winning a scholarship.
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@FumbleFingers So I should always use possessive form before a gerund? – Mar 31 '16 at 15:56
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I guess the system has auto-deleted my comment because I added it to the one auto-generated by my dup closevote. Formally speaking, as StoneyB says on the original, we would advise you to stick to the possessive, particularly if you are in school or are in a field which demands a lot of formal writing. But you need to understand that "winning" in your first version is *not a gerund* - it's a continuous participle verb form. And even in a formal context it would often be stretching a point to say the continuous verb form was in any sense "incorrect". – FumbleFingers Mar 31 '16 at 17:51