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Indirect Object or Prepositional Object

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 13:16:38 GMT

Please help me with this: What are the constituents written with capital letters, Indirect Objects or Prepositional Objects:
1. Professor Smith lectures on Greek philosophy TO THE SECOND YEAR STUDENTS every Tuesday.
2. Professor Smith lectures ON GREEK PHILOSOPHY to the second year students every Tuesday.
Thank you very much, tomorrow morning I have the exam.

Re: Phrases

miriam — Tue, 08 Jun 2004 18:34:14 GMT

Hi, Malory.

1. "Preserving rare and valuable books and documents is one of the challenges FACING THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS."
The construction in capital letters is a participial clause (present participial); it functions as post modifier of "challenges". It is what's also called a "reduced relative clause"; the complete clause would be "... the challenges (that are facing the library of Congress)". There, you have a relative pronoun introducing the clause, and also a conjugated verb (are facing).
"Preserving rare and valuable books" is a gerundial clause, acting as subject of the sentence.

2. "Refreshed by the cool breeze, I didn't object to GOING BACK TO WORK."
Here, you have (in capitals) a gerundial clause acting as direct object of the main verb.
"Refreshed by the cool breeze" is a past participial clause.

3. "The United States, a true 'melting pot', has been greatly enriched BY MANY DIVERSE CULTURES."
"by many diverse cultures" is a prepositional phrase acting as agent (the sentence has a verb in the passive voice).
"a true 'melting pot'" is a noun phrase acting as apposition of 'the United States'.

There aren't any examples of infinitive clauses in these sentences.

Miriam.

Re: Noun clause, and types

Woodward — Tue, 05 Aug 2003 16:32:57 GMT

That's a big subject!

A noun clause is formed with:
subordinator + subject + verb (+ rest of clause)

Noun Clauses usually begin with Subordinators: how, however, if, that, what, whatever, where, which, whichever, whose, whether (or not)........etc

A noun Clause can serve as a: (Noun clauses are in Capital letters)

Subject - HOW LIFE BEGAN has been a topic of debate for many centuries.

Subject Compliment - A little mass gives a lot of energy, and this is WHY NUCLEAR POWER IS SO ABUNDANT.

Direct Object - In 1978 scientists discoverd THAT THE PLANET PLUTO HAS A SATELLITE.

Object of a Preposition - Microeconomics is concerned with HOW WHEAT PRICES RISE WHILE COTTON PRICES FALL.

And this is only the beginning........ :P