Would you tell me how you reached the conclusion that 3 is correct, whereas 4 is incorrect? They look identical, except one has 'her sister' and the other has 'her', In 1) and 4)"Martin suggested her" requires "

ok the phrase : Also remember that predicate nominatives/adjectives are only for linking verbs and action verbs are followed by direct/indirect objects is what i needed to hear 4 hours ago....lol.... thank you so very much i am correcting my sons

2 & 3 seem okay. 3 needs a question mark. #1 may be technically correct, but it's difficult to read. We ( I ) expect something like, "It's not for nothing that he asked you to come there and give a speech." Perhaps if

also remember that predicate nominative/adjectives are only for linking verbs, if it is an action verb than you call them direct/ indirect objects.   Example: I gave Bob 5 dollars Gave is the verb Bob is the indirect object 5 dollars is the direct

The key is the verb and the context. Learners often want to put an indirect object on suggest, recommend, and explain , and their near synonyms, all of which are either totally wrong or very awkward. Here are some examples of the sorts of wrong

"Suggest the next step to me" is fine, but, as you show in your original post #2, the indirect object is not required. "Please suggest the next step" is also fine. Again, sometimes the indirect object is required, sometimes

I see your dilema, but I'm too tired to say anything intelligent. Usually, where we have a direct object and an indirect object, the "to" for the indirect object is optional. But in your example it is required. I don't know

Hello. Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs. What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses

It would be wrong to say: 'Give me it'. The correct sentence is 'Give it to me'. If you have a noun then it's OK: 'Give me the book' or 'Give the book to me' (to emphasise the addressee of the action). But

These are idomatic and natural, as you probably know. My sense of it is that sans the original direct object, the original indirect object becomes the direct object. That is, "showing" is something you can do to someone. I don't