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Paco -- I'm not sure you can always say that the first of two objects is automatically the indirect object. What if you said "I told the story to the man in the long white coat"? "The story" is still the direct object, even though it now precedes the indirect object. "The man in the long white...

Hi there, I know that my problem isn´t grammar in general but I would really love some help in analysing these sentences which I find very difficult! I´ve tried myself, but I know my tries are incorrect. Thanks in advance. I am supposed to identify the primary sentence constituents in these...

Another kind of illegitimate argument is based on analogy between one area of grammar and another. consider yet another construction where there is variation between nominative and accusative forms of pronouns: , where the subject has the form of a coordination of pronouns. This shows us not...

Hello Ethanw.This is not a reply to your question but merely my tip about it. First of all, please allow me to say your first sentence is wrong. It should be "They made him leave". This is a special structure called as "causative construction". This sentence can be parsed as "They {made }" or...

I need a few of the regulars out there to help me out again, could you please check what I've answered so far and tell me if I'm right? If I'm wrong please simply point me in the right direction and I'll try again. Unfortunately questions B and C have stumped me, so I'd be grateful if anyone...

Hello VAs you see I am neither a professional linguist nor an English teacher. I am a mere English learner from Japan. I'm learning grammar things just as a tool to make my acquisition of English easy. So I don't care much about which theory is right and which theory is wrong. What I am...

Hello TeachersIn a forum for English learning Japanese people, I have lately had a debate over the sentences having the pattern <SVOC>. Here S denotes ‘subject’, V ‘verb’, O ‘direct object’, and C ‘complement’. Those patterns are troublesome for me in many respects. One of the problems is...

Hi, I'm a new member on the forum. My name's Michal and I'm from Poland. I've been learning descriptive grammar of Enlgish lately. Reading LONGMAN Grammar of Spoken and Written English, I've come across a couple of problems which are hard for me to overcome. I hope that you will help me...

Re: distinguishing between adjectival infinitives and appositive infinitives. I, too, feel that it is better to make the distinction. Nine times out of ten the noun modified by an adjectival infinitive is an object of the infinitive (not necessarily a direct object). (a house to live in,...

Hello HelaI'm not quite sure what you want to know, but let me make a try.In short, an intransitive verb is the one that does not take a direct object. In another words, there is no receiver of the action expressed by an intransitive verb. My dreams will come true.Here "true" is...