In Verbs^x, Accusative^x

Dear teachers, What’s the syntactic name of the following structures in English ? How can I get more examples of these ? A/ 1) Sylvester cried his eyes out . 2) The dog barked him awake. 3) Dora shouted herself hoarse. 4) Well, the conclusion was that my mistress...

Hello paco, thank you for your reply & references. I got interested more and more. First of all, yes, in Russian we use accusative case to express temporal duration. In order to express some time zone (like 'this morning') there are some means but I usually use bare instrumental case...

Hello LL Yes, you are right. "Jeden Tag" is also an adverbia accusative NP. But it modifies the whole of the following part of the sentence, not particulary the verb "spielen". As for "Tennis", I feel it is a part of a verbal phrase "Tennis spielen", which by itself behaves like a verbal...

LanguageLover wrote: Paco. Are you analyzing "I drove two hours" as an SVO based on the old English rule you mentioned that adverbials would act as a noun, so here "two hours" is a noun and object of the verb? Hello LL As a trial, I am proposing a hypothesis that "I walked two hours" would...

Viognier wrote: I have an elementary question: what's the difference in meaning between: #1 He walked two hours. #2 He walked for two hours. I've learned that #1 is more natural. But #2 is natural too, isn't it? Hello Roro I'm sorry I am too late to answer. Today my computer...

Many English nouns and noun phrases can be used as adverbs. They are called "adverbial objectives". From the standpoint of word order, an adverbial objective is put as if it were an objective of a verb, but actually it works as an adverbial modifier of the verb. This sort of constructs comes from...

hope / demand/ desire / want /wish ( o ) She hopes he comes/will come tomorrow. ( x ) She hopes him to come tomorrow. ( o ) She demands he (should) come tomorrow. ( o ) She demands him to come tomorrow. ( o ) She desires he (should) come tomorrow. ( o ) She desires him to come tomorrow. ( ? )...

??I want that you clean up your room this instant! It would not surprise me to learn that it was possible in some NAmE Englishes. Some Romance language speaking immigrants may speak it. Quote from Everything2 : The Subjunctive Mood of English After verbs which formerly...

Have we considered thoroughly enough the possibility that what is to blame for this conundrum is the poverty of terminology for talking about such structures. I mean, why should it have to be either a participle or a gerund? Just because textbooks don't use a term like "geriple" or "particiund"?...

Thanks MrP, that's much clearer than the thing I read on google. If "unaccusative verbs" are not familiar to you, what about "labile verbs", does it ring a bell ? Do all the examples hereafter have the same structure ? i.e. 'His novel sold well.' 'His novel reads strangely.' 'His novel...