By Nouns, Indirect objects

Dear teachers, Here are other sentences that I analized. Would you mind correcting them ? 4) A larger than normal pay increase was awarded to the nurses. Parts of speech: Larger = comparative adjective Than = ? Normal = adjective Pay = adjective (?) Increase = noun Sentence elements: (??) ?...

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...

All are possible. (1) The ones with singular 'present' are unrealistic because we would give our parents different presents each year. (2) The ones with plural 'birthdays' are preferable to the ones with singular 'birthday' because the modifier should normally match the number of the noun, in...

To be honest, I'm not all that convinced myself that 'refused' is 'coplular' (is that the correct term even?). A tried 'n true test--passivization--offers up conflicting results. The expectation, I believe, is that linking verbs when passivized generate ungrammaticality, and yet our example does...

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...

I'm concerned that there may be a misunderstanding with regard to terminology. If your son needs to assign a "part of speech" to each word, his choices, according to many classifying schemes, are: noun, verb, adjective, adverb, preposition, conjunction, interjection, ... The following are not...

Nine times out of ten the indirect object is one or more persons, and the direct object is really a physical object. Almost all the verbs that take both a direct and an indirect object have to do with transferring. st. = something (object) so. = someone (indirect object) give st. to so.; send...

In my dictionary the verb cook is transitive. I don’t know if I need to use a preposition between the “cook” and the pronoun. We are cooking to them a soup. We are cooking for them a soup. We are cooking them a soup. It sounds to me “We are cooking for them a soup” is the good answer, but I...

Hemaboss, I'm afraid your "rule" for the use of "say" is not 100% correct. Pemmican explained it correctly. In your example "He said that I was right", "that I was right" is the direct object ("say" is a transitive verb). What it true is that this verb can be followed by an indirect object (which...

What are the rules concerning forming simple, complex, and compound-complex sentences. Please Define; Direct Object, Indirect Object, Objective Pronouns, Perogative Nouns, Perogative Adjectives, and Apositive Pronouns.