Is that correct? it seems wrong It's not wrong. Normally in English sentences are ordered " Subject (S), Verb (V), Indirect Object (IO), Direct Object (DO) " but can run OSV, and, where pronouns are used in substitution of either the

The list isn't meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged. Any additions, corrections or further examples would be welcomed. 1 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals) 2 action verbs; event

If used at all , the indirect object construction is always to X when the verb is explain . However, it should be noted that the indirect object of explain is almost never explicitly stated. The indirect object is obvious from context 99.9% of

Yes. A similar construction: 'I drove to church'. The verbs donate and drive are ditransitive, which means that they can take a direct object and an indirect object, but this does not mean that either must be present. It would be fine to say 'He

A lovely cake did I bake. A strong boy was he to become. It seems an unusual, literary construction. Hopefully, one of our more linguisitically knowledgable gurus will come along and add the insight I cannot.

This is off the internet too, Abmateen, but I could do no better: Personal Passive simply means that the object of the active sentence becomes the subject of the passive sentence. So every verb that needs an object (transitive verb) can form a

What is the word sucks in " Homework sucks " ? Is it a verb or an adjective? If it is a verb, what does homework suck? This brings up an excellent point, and a wonderful opportunity to discover the beautiful syntactic structure of the English

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Hello Ethanw. This is not a reply to your question but merely my tip about it. First of all, please allow me to say your first sentence is wrong. It should be "They made him leave". This is a special structure called as "causative construction".

Hi, I'm a new member on the forum. My name's Michal and I'm from Poland. I've been learning descriptive grammar of Enlgish lately. Reading LONGMAN Grammar of Spoken and Written English , I've come across a couple of problems which are hard