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"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...

The definition I have in mind is similar to number 2, but may be colloquial. As applied to a love afair, A would be said to be carrying on with B. That is, my usage would be intransitive, while the usage in number 2 is transitive, a love affair being the direct object.Etheredge is planning to...

>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...

.It is wrong. Expect takes a direct object.I am expecting guests for dinner.What did you expect for your birthday-- a 21-gun salute?.

Question when do I use to or from with direct object and indirect objectex. I passed the salt to herI passed the salt for her. In these cases both prepositions are correct . I need to find the rule of when to use each one. I am a teacher and I cant explain it to my student. Please help

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...

You have a good point. Though open can be transitive or intransitive, I feel the original, I opened a crack, usage is transtive which is what makes the expression odd. I'll try not to use it.Thanks.

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.