Which one is grammatical?
"Wow! Nice! I smelled you baking cake!"
"Wow! Nice! I smelled your baking cake!"
Both of them are acceptable, maybe?
Answer
These are idiomatic:
I smelled you smoking out in the tool shed, you little twerp. I'm going to tell Dad on you. An eight-year-old shouldn't be smoking.
Did I smell you burning dead leaves last night? The breeze brought the scent in our window.
I smelled you frying fish.
I would not use "your" with any of those actions. But I'm not sure why. Because the transitive verb smell demands a smellable object? A noun phrase like "your frying fish" is, as a kind of possessive abstraction, inherently unsmellable, whereas "you frying" is closer to "raw" reality? Just a half-baked conjecture.
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