By Indirect objects, Phrasal verbs

Grammarian-bot wrote:A website says that "by" in the following sentence is an adverb.1. The farmer laid by his crops.But if we analyze, we can see that the word "by" answers the question "what" which makes it a preposition. Also the website says that "crops" directyly receives the action of the...

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...

MichalS wrote: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 for me to overcome. I hope that you will...

Hello Ruslana,To me, the only possible one is B. I think that we are evolving away from indirect objects; the existence of so many phrasal verbs and the more efficient communication using the prepositional object favour the use of the latter.

Welcome to English Forums! It would be better if someone familiar with the Longman book responded to your question. I am not familiar with that book. Nevertheless, I will try to answer your questions. 1. An object of a preposition always follows a prepositional verb, yes. A...

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 for me to overcome. I hope that you will help me...

"We'll send you them back" is not a particularly felicitous construction! For the most idiomatic patterns, you'll need one of these: We send the letter to John. We send John the letter. We send it to John. (Not: We send John it.) We send the letter to him. We send him the letter. We send it...