By Indirect objects, Gerunds

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 verbs; dynamic verbs (a verb which can be used in...

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 language. The question at hand is "Does an English verb...

She glorified God by giving back to Him the very thing He desired. She: subjectglorified: verbGod: direct object by giving back to Him the very thing He desired: prepositional phrase, which modifies glorifiedgiving back: gerund (noun) from the phrasal verb to give back, which means to...

will you tell me ithe gerunds or participle phrases and the function they play in the sentence, like Direct Object , Indirect Object, Predicate Noun, Object of Preposition, Subject, Apositive 1. In the botany class, we became quite good at identifying types of flowers 2. after dinner, feeling...

A sentence may take the form of a single clause or be formed from several clauses. The typical clause has a noun phrase for a subject and a verb phrase for a predicate. The verb phrase may have another noun phrase or two embedded within it which serves as direct object or indirect object. ...

I thought that offering was a gerund our was the possessive modifying that gerund position was the direct obect of appreciate the second you was an indirect object of appreciate. My new question is Is hope the main verb of the sentence with I being the subject and what about the first you I...

Close. I = subject hope = INTRANSITIVE verb - requires no object (that) you appreciate our offering (you) this position = ADVERB clause Inside the adverb clause, that = preposition you appreciate our offering (you) this position = VERB clause Inside the verb clause you = subject appreciate =...