Questions tagged [objects]
Questions about the part of speech governed by prepositions and active transitive verbs.
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"Music brings people joy." What is the object？ [migrated]
Music brings people joy.
In this sentence, what is the object？Is it people or joy？If it's joy, is people the indirect object?
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Can I omit "to" in infinitives as object?
I was reading a book, and then the following sentence appeared: "Our wisest move at this point is retreat"
But this is not the only case where I've seen this, there are also sentences that ...
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What is the object of this sentence?
In Modern Family (S06E05), the following sentence is spoken:
Lily's parents were wrong about Mrs. Plank.
What is the object of this sentence?
Is Mrs. Plank the object - because Mrs. Plank is the ...
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What Is 'Given' Information according to the 'Given-before-New' Principle?
In Steven Pinker's book The Sense of Style, he talks about the 'given-before-new' principle (most notably on pages 131–138). He states, '... people learn by integrating new information into their ...
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Object / accusative personal pronouns replacing actor in certain clauses [duplicate]
I'm a native English speaker, and I noticed that I sometimes use accusative pronouns (him, her, me) to replace actors in certain clauses. I have a feeling this is prescriptively considered incorrect ...
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"By equating to (something)": Implicit object or typo or bad grammar?
In p.251, "Introduction to statistics and probability for engineers and scientists, Sheldon M.Ross, 6th edition", I found this sentence:
By equating to zero, we obtain that the maximum ...
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What is the object in the sentence "my sister and her work together" [closed]
It seems like 'my sister and her' are both subjects so it should be 'my sister and she'... And it would be if they worked on something specific together (the obvious object). Eg: My sister and she ...
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Possessive case with who(m)ever in an object noun phrase
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The question put forward as the pretext for mine's closure does not answer my question at all—that question contains “who(m)ever” in a clause acting as an object, which I have no trouble ...
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What is the function of "their way" in "they went their way"?
Go is clearly an intransitive verb. This source {Chomp Chomp_Robin L. Simmons} says:
Some verbs, such as arrive, go, lie, sneeze, sit, and die, are always intransitive; it is impossible for a logical ...
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Is vs is to + verb [duplicate]
I saw the following sentence while reading.
I realized that all my peers do is read textbooks.
My question is whether the meaning of the sentence will change if the sentence is changed to
I ...
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"Neither" between two objects in negative sentence
I had written sentence like this:
However, this approach does not easily allow us to calculate confidence intervals for population growth and other derived quantities, since this way we do not obtain ...
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"I doing sth", "me doing sth", "my doing sth" as an object [closed]
Consider the following four sentences:
She doesn't like that I talked rudely to her.
She doesn't like I talking rudely to her.
She doesn't like my talking rudely to her.
She doesn't like me talking ...
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How can I best describe the content of the object complement in the sentences below? [duplicate]
I came here after reading that perception verbs should be followed by either a base infinitive or a present participle as in the following examples:
I saw the car crash into the barrier.
I saw the ...
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Infinitive as direct object [duplicate]
Merriam's dictionary defines "eat" as an intransitive verb and provides the following definition followed by an example: "to bear the expense of : take a loss on"
the team was ...
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"Ask questions of the past raised" or "Ask the past the questions raised"?
I read a following sentence:
[Yet the stories they tell avoid any evolutionary model of progress, as well as any systematic critique. I want to outline, however rapidly, the history of the present ...
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