By Pronouns, Direct objects

Sorry, Jim, I was obscure. I was thinking of the structure where a purposive infinitive follows a verb and direct object noun or pronoun: 1. Transitive verb + direct object + purposive to-infinitive 'I shot him with a Smith & Wesson .38 to save us all a lot of unnecessary vexation.' 'I shot the...

People sometimes refer to the CGEL on this site. Conveniently, some sample chapters from this publication are now online at CGEL sample chapters The preliminary chapter includes the odd lapse of logic. This is one of the first. Apologies for the fairly lengthy quotation: Another kind of...

Hello Hela I'm inclined to agree with CJ about your example 2: 'It's (high/about) time she WAS in bed' seems the natural form, because you use this phrase when you have no doubt that the person should be in bed. I agree too that the past tense here indicates: 'by this time, you should...

Hello everyone, I like to do sentence analyses, so if you could sometimes send us some exercises on the matter they will be very welcome. A/ Here is MY analysis: 1) She is so pretty a girl. a) parts of speech: she = nominative personal pronoun is = fintie verb so = adverb of...

That's an interesting thought, Paco. At first glance, I would guess that ditransitive French verbs had to take 'de' or 'à' or an indirect object pronoun, which means the structure differs slightly: 1. Il a vendu le vélo à MrP. 2. Il lui a vendu le vélo. (But maybe a French native speaker could...

Hello, Nobody replied to my previous post, but I hope someone will for this one 1) The representative told the press a lie out of fear of retribution. Parts of speech: The = definite article Representative = noun Told = ditransitive verb Press = noun A = indefinite article Lie = noun Out...

I've done some research and believe it is a personal pronoun (third party). Feminine - heo or hie = her (direct object) All genders plural - heo or hie = them (direct object) http://acunix.wheatonma.edu/mdrout/GrammarBook/GramPersPronouns.html Good day, Eric

Try this, Karol: 1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the prepositional object, but the particle of a phrasal verb can generally precede or follow the direct object. 2) When the object is a personal pronoun, the pronoun follows the particle of a prepositional verb but precedes...

I would analyse it this way: - "He swallowed a lot of new questions" - main clause; he = subject, swallowed = predicate, a lot of new questions = direct object - "which had just occured to him" - subordinate clause, functioning as an object complement; internal analysis: which = relative...

He swallowed a lot of new questions which had just occured to him, and looked instead at the thousands of narrow boxes piled neatly right to the ceiling. He | swallowed ... and looked (instead) subject | verbs joined by a conjunction (adverb) swallowed | a lot of new questions verb | complement...