Did you tell Megan the details of the Information Day? If not, I will tell her. 1) Should you add "the details" to the rear of the last sentence if you want to make it natural? --- "If not, I will tell her the

isn't prisoners the direct object because it's receiving the gnawing? No. If the object (or what seems like it to you) doesn't occur directly after the verb with no intervening preposition, it's not a direct object, and the verb is

Mary rode skates. - Skates is a direct object. Mary rode to the store. - Store is the object of the preposition "to." Mary rode home. - What is home? It's not a direct object because she didn't put a saddle on her home like she

Thank you, do you have any tips on how I can spot the direct object when it's combined with a preoposition?

I was wondering if someone can explain the difference between the two with examples for me. I was looking up the word gnaw and under the intransitive verb part, it gave me a sentence: Hunger gnawed at the prisoners. I thought intr. verb did not

Hi, Here's a simple level of explanation. A transitive verb is a verb that takes a direct object. 'Trans' is Latin for 'across'. Think of it this way. The 'action' of the verb passes 'across' from

Hi Anon I also doubt that many consumers even know which special products or companies have received an industrial design award. No comma. The word "which" introduces a clause that basically functions as the direct object of the verb

Please tell me why this sentence is correct: Alcohol and tobacco are harmful to whoever consumes them. I thought that if the pronoun is a direct object then the objective case is used. However, it is appropriate to use the nominative case when the

Sorry, but what is a patient? Not completely identical to, but very close to the "old-fashioned" term direct object . ( direct object is a syntactic role; patient is a semantic role.) CJ

It's similar to "I cannot find my way out of the forest." "He couldn't punch his way out of a paper bag!" "This time, she couldn't lie her way out of it." "Perhaps we can negotiate our way out