By Direct objects, Pronouns

I suggest taking a nap.You can only get the pronoun in (indirect object) by making it the subject of a relative clause. I suggest you take a nap. Then the whole clause is the direct object of "suggest."I guess you could also use the "to me" form for the indirect object. ...

Hi,I'm really enjoying this. You're making me think. I'm going to take your points out of sequence. I think I'm still replying to your post; if I misrepresent what you're saying, please correct me. First, the summary of what I'm going to say: A lot depends on theory, and...

Learners often want to put an indirect object on suggest, recommend, and explain, and their near synonyms, all of which are either totally wrong or very awkward.Here are some examples of the sorts of wrong uses I'm talking about: Please suggest me what to do.Sally has explained me the rules.I...

Hello, Twinkletoes.No, that's not what I'm saying. "things to do" is the direct object of "have", the main verb of the sentence. "To do" would be a clause (a non-finite one) even if "things" weren't there or if it had some other type of...

Hello.Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs.What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

.Leaving out 'which is' any time is dangerous, because it is more often used for non-restrictive clauses than restrictive clauses, and non-restrictive clauses to not permit zero-that/whichIn restrictive clauses, the relative pronouns that and which (+ be) can be omitted if no confusion in...

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...

Anonymous wrote:1. The news that he won surprised us all. (Noun clause?)2. The news which we received last month was unbelievable.3. It is a fact that the earth is round.4. The fact that the earth is round is weel well-known. Hi Sothy Sin, #1 and #2 relative pronoun clauses are of adjectival...

Spides wrote:All your sentences could be written with just "all" or "all of." I think that "all" would be designated a pronoun in each of your examples. It can be used as an adjective--She sat up all night--but in your sentences "all" means "the whole number or amount" and is the direct object...

All your sentences could be written with just "all" or "all of." I think that "all" would be designated a pronoun in each of your examples. It can be used as an adjective--She sat up all night--but in your sentences "all" means "the whole number or amount" and is the direct object of the verb...