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.It is wrong. Expect takes a direct object.I am expecting guests for dinner.What did you expect for your birthday-- a 21-gun salute?.

Question when do I use to or from with direct object and indirect objectex. I passed the salt to herI passed the salt for her. In these cases both prepositions are correct . I need to find the rule of when to use each one. I am a teacher and I cant explain it to my student. Please help

a large meteor hitting the moon is a noun clause. It's the subject of the sentence. hitting is the "head" of the clause. The hitting is what would cause the melting. The clause itself has a subject (a large meteor), a verb (hitting), and a direct object (the moon).It's a...

You have a good point. Though open can be transitive or intransitive, I feel the original, I opened a crack, usage is transtive which is what makes the expression odd. I'll try not to use it.Thanks.

understood??? Or is it the same structure as , "I went to the door and screamed a little"??What I'm really comfortable with is, "I opened the door a crack." "Door" is the direct object of "to open," and "a crack" is adverbial.I guess this...

Hi,give me an example of a sentence that has a pattern of subject-verb-direct object-indirect object.I gave an example to you.Best wishes, Clive

give me an example of a sentence that has a pattern of subject-verb-direct object-indirect object.

Please help me with this: What are the constituents written with capital letters, Indirect Objects or Prepositional Objects:1. Professor Smith lectures on Greek philosophy TO THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS every Tuesday.2. Professor Smith lectures ON GREEK PHILOSOPHY to the second year students every...

To elaborate on Philip's point that "shame" in the Microsoft/Yahoo example means "an unfortunate thing" rather than "a disgrace;" we like to know, "Whose misfortune is it?" That is, who exactly is going to suffer because of the situation described? ...

Hmm..."nibbling at" usually means that the nibbler will not finish the item. "NIbbling on" doesn't indicate any expectation about completing. Nibbling with a direct object seems strange to me, but I think it's grammatically correct. Maybe we would understand that as...