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I m helping my son with homework not very well Directions say Identify subordinate clause and tell wither it is an adjective clause adverb clause or noun clause 1 Along a racetrack he set up many cameras whose shutters were controlled by threads stretched across the track 2 They were the first...

I m helping my son with homework Directions say Identify subordinate clause and tell wither it is an adjective clause adverb clause or noun clause 1 Along a racetrack he set up many cameras whose shutters were controlled by threads stretched across the track 2 They were the first artists in...

I can t figure out how to do a new post I m helping my son with homework Directions say Identify subordinate clause and tell wither it is an adjective clause adverb clause or noun clause 1 Along a racetrack he set up many cameras whose shutters were controlled by threads stretched across the...

John and me went to town may be common but I would consider it incorrect usage Many native speakers use it but I would definitely not advise an English learner to adopt it It s not based on shaky grounds but on the difference between grammatical subjects and grammatical objects Here John and I...

Hi CJI m sorry but they didn t list up such normally ditransitive verbs By the way CJ I found online a Web page that says that Huddleston and Pullum in Cambridge Grammar of the English Language says In canonical clauses containing just one object that object is always a direct object even if it...

As to this problem Quirk states as below The indirect object can generally be omitted without affecting the semantic relation between other elements EX He saved me a seat EX He saved a seat EX He saved me Hence if there is only one object present it is generally the direct object But with a few...

Hello KhoffI understand what you mean EX 1 Yesterday she taught her students the Pythagoras theorem EX 2 Yesterday she taught the Pythagoras theorem to her students The two sentences are almost the same in meaning so some traditional grammarians insist that her students in to her students of EX 2...

Paco I m not sure you can always say that the first of two objects is automatically the indirect object What if you said I told the story to the man in the long white coat The story is still the direct object even though it now precedes the indirect object The man in the long white coat is the...

I think we can distinguish direct objects and indirect objects rather easily because in English direct objects and indirect objects are defined syntactically not semantically like the case distinction between accusatives and datives in German If a verb is followed by two objects the first one is...

The verb is what determines if an indirect object is possible Some verbs that take indirect objects and direct objects are give bring sell buy offer promise tell ask Theresa gave Bob a new wallet I will bring you the coffee tomorrow They sold him a guitar My sister bought George a coat The...