I don't want to be a pain in the neck but I am doing English Grammar II at the teacher training school and we are analyzing sentences. Since I am practising on my own I have come across many doubts. My doubt has to do with the verb

No, Jones is the subject - the hand is the direct object. Joes is doing the action; the hand is receiving the action.

Off-topic side note: with German (and Dutch) word ordering the problem does not occur because a verb phrase is split into two separate parts. For example, using a Dutch/German word order (V2) this sentence becomes something like, "The

Hello, We don't split verb phrases like "must have been sleeping" because the whole phrase is acting together as the verb. (But, in this example, you could choose to see "sleeping" as a gerund acting as the predicate noun

I don't think that such a thing as a 'direct object adjective' exists. Please check your source or give me some more information about what you are looking for.

Dear all, I requested from my tenant 14% increment for the rent of my appartment (according to the Cyprus law). He refused and I suggested to suffering 4% as to reduce the increment from 14% to 10%. Then, he accepted my suggestion and I

so i'm on to passivisation now and having a couple troubles. Can these sentences be passivised, 1) these flowrs wilt easly under the hot sun - I don't think it can because there is no direct object and "under the sun" is an

"If the i.o.u.'s are issued as threated, it would be the first time since 1992 -- when Gov. Pete Wilson paid roughly 100,000 state employees with them -- that the warrants were used to hold over those to whom the state owed money . "

so i'm on to passivisation now and having a couple troubles. Can these sentences be passivised, 1) these flowrs wilt easly under the hot sun - I don't think it can because there is no direct object and "under the sun" is an

From Oxford it says: He has committed himself to support his brother's children. (Verb) But no examples provided for adjective usage. To the last question, I learned long ago that it's incorrect to use bare infinitve after