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Re: Recommend / suggest

Liveinjapan — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 05:24:35 GMT

Thanks again, Mbouti.

mbouti
Hi
Can you give me examples for a that-clause for recommend and indirect object for suggest?

The doctor recommended (that) I take more exercise. from Cambridge online dictionary

In your example, I meant you is an indirect object. In my opinion, suggest takes a direct object like your going or going, etc.

Re: Recommend / suggest

Liveinjapan — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:39:24 GMT

Thanks.

mbouti
after recommend, two structures are possible.

Cambridge also says recommend can take a that-clause; what do you think of it?

mbouti
"I suggest you going there."

Can suggest take an indirect object like you?

Re: the reason

Tanit — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 13:58:50 GMT

On reflection, I think I must amend one thing I wrote earlier. (General statements are always dangerous when speaking about English...sorry )

Tanit
...while some need to be followed by an indirect object (i.e. one preceded by a preposition) ...

Sometimes indirect objects are not preceded by a preposition. This happens, for instance, with verbs like send/give/write:
        John gave me the book.
        John sent me a parcel.
        John wrote her a letter.
It's easy, though, to distinguish the objects if we rewrite these sentences as:
        John gave the book to me.
        John sent a parcel to me.
        John wrote a letter to her.

Re: the reason

Tanit — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 07:31:15 GMT

Buddhist-Accountant
Could you mention other intransitive verb ??

Hi,

I can mention a couple of them.

To be: I was here at five. - I am tired. - To be or not to be?
To exist: Do you believe UFOs exist?
To appear: He appeared suddenly.
To die: My grannie died at the age of 92. - John has died.
To rain: It's raining heavily. - It's going to rain.
To lie: She's always lying.
To work: Tom works in a farm.
To talk: They have been talking for two hours.
To go: I usually go to the beach on Sundays.

As you can see, some are "complete" (i.e. they don't require any object), while some need to be followed by an indirect object (i.e. one preceded by a preposition) or by an adjective.
Also, some verbs can be either transitive or intransitive, depending on the meaning and on the context.

To run: Ann is running in the park (intransitive) - Ann ran the marathon in 1989 (transitive) - Ann runs a business in London (transitive)

The best thing you can do is to look verbs up in a dictionary like this one. For each verb, you will find (T) and/or (I), which stand for "transitive" and "intransitive" respectively. I am pretty sure you also can find many useful posts about this topic in the forums (especially in the linguistics section).

Re: Him killed I!

Huevos — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 19:32:13 GMT

Anonymous
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 subject or object (e.g. your sentence) there are no word order constraints so OVS is possible. That said, such a construction is pretty unusual and almost certainly would be limited to use in literature for effect.

TRANSITIVE AND INTRANSITIVE VERBS

phoebinku — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 11:51:02 GMT

Hello,
What's the best way to explain the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs when you're the person doing the explaining. I know what the differences are, but try as I might every time I set pen to paper -- all I need is a paragraph or two -- I end up going to my local pub instead.
Here's what I've got in a nut shell:
transitive take a direct object:
intransitive take an indirect object/prepositional phrase
Most verbs are ambitransitive.
Some are strictly one or the other.
Am I confused?
P.

Re: hire /free of

Clive — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:19:12 GMT

Hi,

I am wondering whether the hire has two objects.
Would you take a look at a sentence below and share your opinion?

---> His parents were amazed and then hired him a piano teacher.
This is OK. There is a direct object (piano teacher) and an indirect object (him). You could also write this sentence as . . . hired a piano teacher for him.
Many verbs can have a direct + an indirect object.

And for another thing, in the usage of 'be free of' and 'be free from', what differences are there between them? Generally speaking, I don't see any difference, in your example. To some extent, it just depends on context. To get a feeling for this, you simply need to read and listen to a lot of English.
eg Tom is free of debt. Tom is free from debt. Both of these are OK.
eg Tom is free from jail. But not Tom is free of jail.
How should I know when I use 'free of' and when 'free from'?
Any method to figure out it?
The sentence below is the one that made me question about it.

----> At first he wanted to be free of what he thought would be a âmonster baby."

Best wishes, Clive

Re: Appositive, direct object, indirect, predicate nominative, object of prepos

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:45:52 GMT

"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 complements, because they modify the direct object, people.

"Scurvy was the leading cause of death among sailors in the early eighteen century."

Cause is the predicate nominative, because it stands for the subject, scurvy.
Sailors is the object of a preposition, because it follows the preposition among, and acts as the subject of the prepositional phrase.

"In 1753, James Lind, a Scottish naval surgeon, showed that citrus could cure scurvy."

Surgeon is an appositive for James Lind, because it describes him further, but is not essential to the sentence.

"When the British navy gave sailors fresh citrus juice, scurvy disappeared from their ships."

Navy is the subject, because it is the thing which gave.
Sailors is an indirect object, because they are the people to whom the juice was given.
Juice is the direct object, because it is the thing which was given.

"Today, scurvy is rare; it is usually seen only in very old or very young patients whose diets are deficient in vitamin C."

Vitamin C is an object of a preposition because it is the subject of the prepositional phrase, "in vitamin C."

When trying to diagram a sentence I think it becomes easier when you take out the unnecessary words. For example change "scurvy was the leading cause of death among sailors in the early eighteen century," to "scurvy was the cause of death among sailors in century." The latter is less senseful, but makes it easier to diagram the sentence's nouns. Of course that method wouldn't work as well when you're asked to diagram words other than nouns.
I hope this made some sense, and helped!
-Nathan

Re: Appositive, direct object, indirect, predicate nominative, object of prepos

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:09:28 GMT

Re: The manual you gave was/is very useful.

Marius Hancu — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 11:41:34 GMT

>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 for any verb. Find the real subject.

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