By Idioms, Direct objects

These are idomatic and natural, as you probably know. My sense of it is that sans the original direct object, the original indirect object becomes the direct object. That is, "showing" is something you can do to someone. I don't think it's all that different from "Please...

Hello Dudumuzik, Welcome to the forums. A transitive verb requires a direct object. You picked a hard one - grammatically, we don't say "I knocked the door." There is an expression "knock wood," but it's an idiom. Was your question specifically about the verb "to knock" or about transitive...

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...

A. In many cases "stay away" and "keep away" could be interchangeable, but not in the two examples you give. 1. "Keep away" here would suggest that there was something dangerous about the school itself, rather than just a difficulty in getting to the school. "Everyone has to stay away/keep...

Hi Jim, no, I'm not asking you to do my homework. Yes, I have some tasks to work on and I got some questions about it. Because in my group we got some different answers for these sentences, then, how I trust the answers that I get from this forum I decided to check it. In sentences 1 and 2 I...