By Articles, Direct objects

The list isn't meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged. Any additions, corrections or further examples would be welcomed. 1 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals) 2 action verbs; event verbs; dynamic verbs (a verb which can be used in...

<>block is the verb. bid is the direct object of the verb. This reads like a headline because the article on bid is omitted.to block (a) bid = to place a barrier on an offer, perhaps by vetoing it. Without more context, it's hard to say much more than that. We don't know what...

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language.For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used.If the english language...

Hi LiJ,You can certainly remove here, but the sentence would not be clear to the readers since a GMP could be anywhere in the States. Here helps restrict the location (ie., the state, the city, etc...) where the GMP is located; although the use of the article 'a' still does not say which...

This post is a little dated but since I've been working with my students on this very topic I thought I'd post.First, you can't understand what the "object of the preposition" is if you don't first know how to identify prepositions. So you need to find a list (google "list prepositions English"...

Categories or Parts of Speech he - pronoun he - noun phrase (NP)* is - verb a - article nice - adjective person - noun a nice person - noun phrase (NP)* is a nice person - verb phrase (VP)* *These designations come from a system of analysis called 'transformational...

No particle is appropriate with the direct object: 'My minions will pursue you to the ends of the earth!''With' seems OK if both are pursuers: 'I will pursue this topic further with you.''On' seems wrong in any context.

Hi, I need to write a sentence in the following pattern, and I don't see how it's possible. The pattern is: adjective + direct object + helping verb + subject + verb No articles allowed? So, something like 'Great strength did he use'. This kind of odd word order seems very literary or...

Hello Believer I think Paco is using the phrase "verbal noun" in the sense "noun derived from a verb". Thus "rescue" and "notification" qualify as "verbal nouns", because the first derives from the verb "rescue", and the second from the verb "notify". (I hope I'm not misrepresenting Paco.) Some...

There are transitive verbs, intransitive ones, and there are verbs that are of both types. I play very well. Intransitive, because there is no object attached to the verb. I play football. football is the direct object of the verb, thus 'play' here is transitive. I like you. 'you' is the...