Hello, I've got some questions about passivazation and the use of indirect object. Firstly, I met a sentence, Good care was taken of the children by Mary , which was indicated as acceptable in grammaticality. Its corresponding

Hello, We don't split verb phrases like "must have been sleeping" because the whole phrase is acting together as the verb. (But, in this example, you could choose to see "sleeping" as a gerund acting as the predicate noun

Hi Elizabeth Re: 'He asked her to dance'. That was a great reply to something that I too was unsure about. If I understand you correctly, that example is analysed as: 'He - asked - ' i.e. S-V- , where O is an

It indicates the recipient of the support.

what is the use of the underlined pronoun in the sentence:Most of them give her support...

I don't think that such a thing as a 'direct object adjective' exists. Please check your source or give me some more information about what you are looking for.

can yuou explain the direct object adjective?

We think our way forward by choosing between right and wrong alternatives, and the wrong choices have to be made as frequently as the right ones. This is called the " X's way construction". X's way is the direct object. The

I need help with the sentence, "People thronged to watch Christians thrown to the lions." My question is, "to watch Christians" the noun phrase or is it just "Christians"? I also need to know the function of the

I would include it to avoid a new way being understood as a direct object of counts. CB