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There's some differentiation between the two here, they seem to be considered synonyms only for the meaning 2: --------- till Function: preposition 1 chiefly Scotland a : to a place of arrival : through to : as far as < till an end> b : to or toward a limit or...

"John and me went to town" may be common, but I would consider it incorrect usage. Many native speakers use it, but I would definitely not advise an English learner to adopt it. It's not based on "shaky grounds" but on the difference between grammatical subjects and grammatical objects. ...

Miriam wrote: 1. "Mary made Tom a hero." 2. "Mary made Tom a cake." Both sentences are, structurally, exactly alike. In both we have a verb that can take an object complement, and in both the direct object (Tom) is followed by a noun phrase. The only difference between both, again from...

Hello, everyone. I'm truly surprised to see a simple question has developed into such a long thread which, I must say, has strayed from the original question. "Alive" is not an object complement. It is simply an adjective that is used postpositively. There is no freedom of choice as to where...

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....

Hello again, MrP (IF I may I call you MrP). I think I understand now what you meant in the post I found confusing. You said: “...which implies that the subject of the <whosever/whose-ever> clause in the example is the same as the subject of the main clause. However, the...

Thanks, Paco, I'd forgotten about that thread! Since we're discussing passive constructions ('who was given the book?') rather than active constructions ('to whom did you give the book?'), it might be easier to take an example whose 'active version' doesn't contain an indirect object: 1....