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Matrix4583 — Sat, 08 Apr 2006 02:03:02 GMT

Hey, i'm new here. My name is Tim and I got this forum from a friend of mine. He told me that this might help me with the problem i got. I have a brother that is 16 years old and i'm 23( in the US Army). He needs help with his english. The teacher gave him the study guide, but no answer on it. So i ask him to give the study guide to me and i'll help him with it. Well, since i'm busy soo much on school and my job, it's impossible for me to do this. I was wondering if you have some time and help me with this problem. I really appreciate it. Here's the problem.

Language Art:

A. apostrophe
B. Synonym
C. noun or pronoun
D. quotations mark
E. Adjective
F. verb or verb phrase
G. abbreviation
H. antonyms
I. root word.
J. proper nouns
K. Verb
L. action and linking
M. gerund
N. adverb
O. gender
P. subject
Q. Nomniative, object and possessive
R. Predicate nominative
S. Present, past and future
T. direct object.
U. prepositions
V. appositive
W. Object of a preposition

1.____ The subject of a sentence may be what part of speech?
2.____ States what the subject does, is or has in a sentence.
3.____ Sometimes called the simple predicate
4.____ The main part of a without any affixes.
5.____ Two kinds of a Verb.
6.____ What moddifies noun or pronoun?
7.____ What follow a linking verb or action verb?
8.____ The simple tense of verb.
9.____ Follow a preposition.
10.____ Tells more about another noun.
11.____ Answer "what?" or "whom?"
12.____ who or what the sentences about.
13.____ The three cases of personal pronoun.
14.____ personal pronoun have number, person and what?
15.____ Usually modifies a verb, but can sometimes modify an adjective.
16.____ show relationship between it's object and some other word in a sentence.
17.____ A participle that end in "ing" and functions as a noun.
18.____ needed to form possessive nouns and contractions.
19.____ Capitalized because they are particular person, places, and things.
20.____ A short way of writing a word consisting of some of the letters in the word followed by a period.
21.____ Used to show where the exact word of a speaker begin and end.
22.____ Opposite meaning.
23.____ A word that is similar to another in meaning.

That's it. Hoooha.

Study guide.

Matrix4583 — Fri, 07 Apr 2006 22:08:35 GMT

Re: Where is the direct object...

milky — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 21:03:50 GMT

Paco2004 wrote:

Hello guys

Could you allow me to throw my two cents?

As for the second question, if we are not given a particular context, I would like to choose the option "a" given by MrP. In English you have an adjective "untrained" as an antonym to "trained", and you use this word in a way similar to Hela's sentence as seen in the exapmles below.
"The soldiers are too young and too untrained to kill".
"Zoo-born animals are untrained to survive on their own"
As "untrained" is clearly an adjective, we have to take the infinitive "to kill" or "to survive" here as a complement to the adjective.

As to the first question, we learners had better distinguish "intransitive" and "transitive" only from the syntactic status of the verb. If we begin to analyze the transitivity of verbs from the viewpoint of their meanings, our discussion might bog down. When we confine "transitivity" into the syntactic one, "hammer" and "saw" in "Scott hammers and saws like a pro" are definitely intransitive.

paco

<"Zoo-born animals are untrained to survive on their own" >

That doesn't sound like an idiomatic English sentence to me, Paco.

Or you might lose out on really understanding how meaning is expressed. "Kill" is, semantically, a two-participant verb. It is never intransitive.

âobjects that can be omitted tend to be those whose lexical content is most probable given the meaning of the verbâ. (Rice)

These rebels kidnap, rape, torture, and murder villagers. (Main focus on the villagers)

These rebels kidnap, rape, torture, and murder. (Main focus on the activity.)

Note that some transitive verbs need the object to be present in the sentence and others do not.

"very general verbs that sustain a wide variety of complements tend to require objects." (Rice)

Transitive verbs without an object can be interpreted in three ways:

(i) arbitrary: Mary eats, Mary dusts
(ii) specific: John washes while Mary dries
(iii) reflexive: John shaves, John washes

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Re: Where is the direct object...

paco2004 — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 20:25:06 GMT

Hello guys

Could you allow me to throw my two cents?

As for the second question, if we are not given a particular context, I would like to choose the option "a" given by MrP. In English you have an adjective "untrained" as an antonym to "trained", and you use this word in a way similar to Hela's sentence as seen in the exapmles below.
"The soldiers are too young and too untrained to kill".
"Zoo-born animals are untrained to survive on their own"
As "untrained" is clearly an adjective, we have to take the infinitive "to kill" or "to survive" here as a complement to the adjective.

As to the first question, we learners had better distinguish "intransitive" and "transitive" only from the syntactic status of the verb. If we begin to analyze the transitivity of verbs from the viewpoint of their meanings, our discussion might bog down. When we confine "transitivity" into the syntactic one, "hammer" and "saw" in "Scott hammers and saws like a pro" are definitely intransitive.

paco