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Hi folks I would like to ask the following question is it possible for a prepositional phrase to function as a noun in a sentence I am thinking of the following sentence I told her about the meeting My interpretation Subject I Verb told Direct Object about the meeting I told what About the...

Anonymous wrote Obviously there is a difference in meaning between We insist that he uphold the law and We insist that he upholds the law the first is stating more of a command and the other stating a belief about the situation but I cannot figure out exactly why the first one is correct or how...

Obviously there is a difference in meaning between We insist that he uphold the law and We insist that he upholds the law the first is stating more of a command and the other stating a belief about the situation but I cannot figure out exactly why the first one is correct or how to describe to a...

Hi Can you tell me how I can know if this is a direct object The man whom he punches is suing I would expect this to be punched to make sense First the punching then the suing Consider which word in the sentence receives the action of the verb is suing We are not told who is being sued punched...

Hi AnonYou are not comparing similar things After your original post I specifically mentioned pay attention to something In the phrase pay attention to enhancing pay is the verb attention is a direct object to is a prepostion and enhancing is the indirect object To take that a step further you...

Your questions reveal the limitations of the traditional technical vocabulary for discussing grammatical structures You can think of infinitives as a direct objects of the verb want On the other hand want takes a clause as its complement I want He helps us But the complement clause is expressed...

The function of the that clause is direct object of believe Believe what Believe that you like it The that clause can also be considered the direct object of the find construction Note the grammar of find I find this difficult this is the direct object of find Find what Find this With the object...

Schetin I am still trying to dial to the right frequency so that we can communicate I am afraid I have failed because I realize we are not talking in the same wave length I find your pattern of thought difficult to understand I once heard this analogy there is only a thin line between a moron and...

Schetin wrote Yankee wrote She only stated that it was not the specific use that was the topic of discussion in this thread Since Americans started their expansion by means of language the rule but don t ask me why has become nearly universal I find that to be an exceptionally unfair and...

Yankee wrote She only stated that it was not the specific use that was the topic of discussion in this thread Since Americans started their expansion by means of language the rule but don t ask me why has become nearly universal There s a rule and it can be explained That one thinks an...