By Direct objects, Verbs

"Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore."Scurvy is the subject, because it is the thing which "makes people weak and sore."People is the direct object, because it is what scurvy is affecting, direct objects usually follow verbs.Weak and sore are objective...

"Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore."Scurvy is the subject, because it is the thing which "makes people weak and sore."People is the direct object, because it is what scurvy is affecting, direct objects usually follow verbs.Weak and sore are objective...

>By the way, I always thought that you could leave out the subject, 'me' in this case, if you wanted it to be informal. >The manual you gave was/is very useful.That's not a subject, it's an indirect object, you gave (TO) ME. You can't leave it out in any situation and...

a large meteor hitting the moon is a noun clause. It's the subject of the sentence. hitting is the "head" of the clause. The hitting is what would cause the melting. The clause itself has a subject (a large meteor), a verb (hitting), and a direct object (the moon).It's a...

understood??? Or is it the same structure as , "I went to the door and screamed a little"??What I'm really comfortable with is, "I opened the door a crack." "Door" is the direct object of "to open," and "a crack" is adverbial.I guess this...

give me an example of a sentence that has a pattern of subject-verb-direct object-indirect object.

A. I'm wondering if you made a reservation that will require me to arrive earlier.B. I'm wondering if you made a reservation requiring that I arrive earlier.C. Both are correct (but you may need to argue that both use the Present Indefinite).To avoid that, you can rewrite the sentences...

.John likes pizza.Pizza is liked by John.There is no object in the second sentence. The subject of the passive sentence (pizza) is the object of its active equivalent. By John is an adverb. John is the agent in both sentences.Of course, some passive sentences can have objects:John gave Mary a...

Welcome to English Forums! of this is a regionalism. He may have been brought up in or near the Carolinas, for example. If he has heard it and said it that way all his life, of course he will insist that it is right. And within regions where it is used, it will also seem right to everyone...

I find an easy way to tell whether to use "good" or "well" is to substitute a different adjective into the sentence.  For instance,  "I am hungry" works.  "Hungry" is an adjectival complement to "I."  However, "I am hungrily" sounds...