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Well, there are the copulative verbs (to be, to become, to seem ...); they have a predicate, not a Direct Object or an attribute adjective. But there are verbs that semantically express a non-action: to stay, to sleep, etc... What is the context of your "non-action verbs"? Grammar?

Hello again, Hella, and you're welcome. I cannot say you are wrong because I haven't read everything there is to read about English grammar. What I can say is that none of the authors I've read in the past 15 or 20 years consider that adverbials have anything to do with transitivity. The...

Hello, everyone. I'm truly surprised to see a simple question has developed into such a long thread which, I must say, has strayed from the original question. "Alive" is not an object complement. It is simply an adjective that is used postpositively. There is no freedom of choice as to where to...

You're most welcome, Hela. I love everything connected with English grammar, and syntactic analysis is my favourite topic! I have A Grammar of Contemporary English and A University Grammar of English with me, so I can even give you page numbers to go with my words this time! In A Grammar of...

My first letters to this forum were about whether "him to come home" after a verb was a direct object or a direct object plus an object complement, and I am still not certain of the answer (though I now tend to think the latter). There has been no absolutely convincing answer. I mention this...

Hello Hela I'm not an English teacher and I don't think I'm qualified to answer such an intriguing question like this. But I found this remained unanswered, and I don't like to see any question is left unanswered. So I'll try to answer this in spite of my poor grammar knowledge. First of all I...

An English grammar book wrote:Adverbs of manner most often occupy the end position of a clause, where they follow an intransitive verb, or the direct object of a transitive verb. e.g. We waited patiently for the play to begin. I sold the strawberries quickly. Cambridge...

Hello again, MrP (IF I may I call you MrP). I think I understand now what you meant in the post I found confusing. You said: “...which implies that the subject of the <whosever/whose-ever> clause in the example is the same as the subject of the main clause. However, the subject of the...

By the way, Welcome to the forums, Epson Verbs of perception can be followed by either a bare infinitive or by the -ing form. I hear her come in I heard her coming in He saw her fall He saw her falling etc... As I said, the -ing form is more descriptive, like in a film, you saw, heard... the...

http://pinker.wjh.harvard.edu/articles/media/1994_01_24_thenewrepublic.html Probably no "grammatical error" has received as much scorn as "misuse" of pronoun case inside conjunctions (phrases with two parts joined by is an object that requires object case, it does not mean that is an object...