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Hi, I get more money than I give to, or from him. instead of: Say it this way. I get more money from him than I give him to to him . You need to say 'to him' for the same reason that you say 'from him', ie the preposition comes before the pronoun. You can also omit the...

You have made some very complex sentences, so it is not easy to explain without a lot of detail. Here is my analysis of the grammar in the second sentence. I am not an expert in grammar, so I invite other members of the forum to comment. It (pronoun, subject) is (main verb) probably (adverb,...

Raen, at times like this I realize just how poorly I chose my nickname here. What goes from one person to the other is the DIRECT object. The $50. The person who receives the direct object is the INDIRECT object. The clerk. I sent a letter to my sister. The letter is the DO, and my...

II'd be one to admit grammar is never my strong suit but I'm always eager to learn. I've read thoroughly the thread titled "grammar exercise" regarding noun clause/subordinate clause used as adjective, adverb, indirect object and so forth. I really had to strain my brain...

I'm taking a correspondence course. These are some of the exercises that I need to submit. So please I need help from grammar exerperts thnaks. Exercise 1: Identify each of the “ __ ” words in the sentences as one of the following parts of the sentence: 1.Direct object ...

Hi folks, I would like to ask the following question: is it possible for a prepositional phrase to function as a noun in a sentence? I am thinking of the following sentence: I told her about the meeting . My interpretation: Subject: I Verb: told Direct Object: about the meeting (I told what? ...

Categories or Parts of Speech he - pronoun he - noun phrase (NP)* is - verb a - article nice - adjective person - noun a nice person - noun phrase (NP)* is a nice person - verb phrase (VP)* *These designations come from a system of analysis called 'transformational...

' To go home ' is considered by Quirk et al ( A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language , 16.66) as the clausal direct object of ' tell ', with ' him ' the indirect object. That makes it a noun. I tell him something . What do you tell him? I tell him to go home .

Hi, Clive! Thanks for your attention. I see...My question was: Bob , someone's name, is the same as the personal pronoun he , when used in the beginning of sentences. Example: - Bob is a good student ( Bob = personal pronoun He ) , But when it appears after a verb as an indirect...

"than me" sounds much more normal to me than "than I". http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/Writing/t.html Than, as used in comparatives, has traditionally been considered a conjunction; as such, if you're comparing subjects, the pronouns after than should take the "subjective case." In...