By English grammar, Direct objects

The same answers also apply. you is the subject. are doing is the verb. what is the direct object. The rest is adverbial.CJ

Anonymous wrote: Identify the functions of verbs in the sentence below by labelling them Vt (transitive), Vi (intransitive), Vd (dative), Vf (factitive), Vc (copulative) & Vs (sense) Q1: He was last seen (vs) being given a large amount of money outside a bank. Q2: In the late nineteenth...

Milky wrote: <I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior, or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin. > Do you doubt that was the case? "Doubt" is too strong a word. I would be...

<I would be interested to see quotations from the early English grammarians that presented spoken English as somehow inferior, or that demonstrated an imposition of inappropriate rules from Latin. > Do you doubt that was the case? If so, I guess you disagree with this: "If they have...

Although I'm a native English speaker, I've often struggled to understand English grammar, especially its morphosyntatical elements. I've done some reading on nominative-accusative as well as ergative-absolutive cases and I just don't get it. Can someone who's better at linguistics explain this...

Hi, I need to write a sentence in the following pattern, and I don't see how it's possible. The pattern is: adjective + direct object + helping verb + subject + verb No articles allowed? So, something like 'Great strength did he use'. This kind of odd word order seems very literary or...

From English grammar books, we learn that there are 6 types of basic sentence patterns around which you can expand to add more meaning. One of the patterns involves using a transitive verb with a direct object and an indirect object, both of which are nouns. In another pattern, the indirect...

I have a english grammar book on verbs usage. I got a question when I read about S+V+I.O+D.O In that book, S+V+I.O+D.O is regarded as meaning that the subject have virtually an impact on the direct object, So I just can't say " I threw him a baseball ,but he did'nt got it." The first sentence...

Hello, Mister Micawber! Thus, A, C, D are not correct. But I have one more question. Are these acceptable? I. Explain to me this rule.II. He read to her the letter.III. They will deliver to our agents the goods at the end of the week.IV. The buyers submitted to the sellers a letter of...

Paco -- I'm not sure you can always say that the first of two objects is automatically the indirect object. What if you said "I told the story to the man in the long white coat"? "The story" is still the direct object, even though it now precedes the indirect object. "The man in the long white...