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What is the word sucks in "Homework sucks"? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck?This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English language. The question at hand is "Does an English verb...

She glorified God by giving back to Him the very thing He desired. She: subjectglorified: verbGod: direct object by giving back to Him the very thing He desired: prepositional phrase, which modifies glorifiedgiving back: gerund (noun) from the phrasal verb to give back, which means to...

I'm not sure what you mean by form, function, and meaning. "into" is a preposition (followed by gerunds in your examples). Certain verbs of influence upon another person's behavior are typically followed by a direct object of person, "into", and a gerund. "nag" and "tempt" are only two of...

will you tell me ithe gerunds or participle phrases and the function they play in the sentence, like Direct Object , Indirect Object, Predicate Noun, Object of Preposition, Subject, Apositive 1. In the botany class, we became quite good at identifying types of flowers 2. after dinner, feeling...

A sentence may take the form of a single clause or be formed from several clauses. The typical clause has a noun phrase for a subject and a verb phrase for a predicate. The verb phrase may have another noun phrase or two embedded within it which serves as direct object or indirect object. ...

No. Needs is, in this case, a transitive verb and requires a direct object. A direct object must be a substantive: a noun or noun-equivalent. (Mowed is the past participle of a verb.) Some of the substantives that could be used are: The grass needs mowing. (Mowing is a gerund.) The...

Thanks, All. First, I am a native English speaker (from California, but now living in London). Second, in "We watched him cooking the dinner," "him" is clearly the intended object of "watched," and "cooking the dinner" is a participial phrase modifying "him." That is, "cooking" is not used...

1. Noun or noun phrase - yes: 'I ate a (big ham) sandwich.' 2. Pronoun - yes: 'I erased him.' 3. Prepositional phrase - no, not really: in 'I looked at his girlfriend', '(his) girlfriend' is considered the direct object, with the particular verb requiring the preposition (a phrasal verb). A...

verb: were subject: children the very young elementary school: all modfiers to the subject on slanted lines underneath misbehaving: gerund acting as direct object, during...performance: prepositional phrase modifying were in...auditorium: prepositional phrase modifying...

I thought that offering was a gerund our was the possessive modifying that gerund position was the direct obect of appreciate the second you was an indirect object of appreciate. My new question is Is hope the main verb of the sentence with I being the subject and what about the first you I...