http://www.englishforums.com/search/pro.htm?q=tag%3aNouns+tag%3aIndirect+objects+tag%3aGrammarSearch results for 'tag:Nouns tag:Indirect objects tag:Grammar' matching tags 'Nouns', 'Indirect objects', and 'Grammar'en-USCSMOD (Build: 3273.32735)http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammaticallyCorrect/gqmcc/post.htm#583238Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:14:40 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:583238cliveHi 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 to ie I get more money from him than I give him I don t want to know if it sounds good I only want to know why it is grammatically correct or no I would also appreciate if you can cite a source Money is the direct object in both parts of the sentence From him and to him are indirect objects Any good grammar book should have a discussion of direct indirect objects Best wishes Clivehttp://www.englishforums.com/English/IsItOkToSay/gpzcj/post.htm#576309Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:17:44 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:576309alpheccastarsYou 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 modifying adjective boring boring present participle of verb bore predicate adjective as hell adverb modifying boring listening gerund predicate noun antecedent is it to me pronoun indirect object of verbal listening telling present participle adjective modifying me but could possibly be a gerund direct object of verbal listening you indirect object of verbal telling that direct object of verbal telling Tell can be correct if it is used in a dependent clause I made the sentence less complex to show the grammar Listening to me when I tell you that is probably boring as hell Listening gerund subject of verb is to me indirect object of verbal listening when I tell you that dependent clause adverb modifying verbal listening etc However in speaking people often take shortcuts in grammar and not lose meaning In this case your second sentence omits the words when I http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarLearning/gcjml/post.htm#513768Wed, 14 May 2008 23:40:37 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:513768grammar geekRaen 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 sister is the IO exactly how that was done is I think a noun phrase serving as the object Exactly what was done is what I d like to know See how it serves as the subject when you turn it around It s a noun phrase I m sorry but someone else is going to have to address your second question I ve never seen the value in learning this stuff I tell my 11 year old that but then tell her she has to do her homework anyway http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarLearning/gcjwd/post.htmWed, 14 May 2008 17:57:10 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:513692raenII 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 to understand it all and I have tons of questions to ask under the same thread but felt that it was not my place to post my questions there I just have a few questions to start off Using the example I m giving below could somebody identify indirect object for me and likewise is there such a thing as direct object then She gave the clerk 50 dollars Thank you Raen http://www.englishforums.com/English/EnglishExercises/zmxwz/post.htmSat, 23 Feb 2008 16:13:04 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:480748market-huxleyI 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 2 Indirect object 3 Predicate noun 4 Predicate adjective A I sent her an email yesterday to comfirm the date of the meeting email direct object her indirect object B Elton John is a pop icon icon predicate noun But I m unsure Need help C She seemed honest but I was deceived honest predicate adjective the word itself is a adjective ex the honest doctor D Give me a break me indirect object Ex give what A break to whom to me is this one right Exercise 2 copy each sentence identify the simple subject and the simple predicate a It is a shame it subject is verb b Will you go to a movie with me you subject go verb c Janet has been singing in the choir for years Janet subject the predicate I m having trouble with Is it has been singing or singing becuase has been are helping verbs What is the simple predicate d Through the dense bushes and into the open fields ran the white tailed deer deer subject ran verb e To win the gold medal is the goal of many athletes To win subject is verb is this one correct How are my answers looking http://www.englishforums.com/English/PrepositionalPhraseFunctionNoun/zzkhc/post.htmThu, 22 Nov 2007 15:17:05 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:445181anonymousHi 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 About the meeting Prep about OOP meeting Indirect Object her To whom did I tell Her An analogous sentence I told her the facts Subject I Verb told Direct Object the facts I told what The facts Indirect Object her To whom did I tell Her It seems pretty clear to me But I found the following in the The Writer s Digest Grammar Desk Reference However a prepositional phrase can t function as a noun Any thoughts Thanks in advance for any help that you might be able to provide http://www.englishforums.com/English/FollowingSentenceSubject/vqndq/post.htm#416516Mon, 10 Sep 2007 02:22:28 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:416516califjimCategories 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 grammar Functions he subject is copula a determiner nice modifier person complement a nice person complement is a nice person predicate At the highest level of functional analysis each sentence has simply a subject and a predicate the predicate is everything in the sentence except the subject The same part of speech category particularly nouns can be used with different functions For example a noun can act as a subject a subject complement a direct object an indirect object an object complement the object of a preposition or a modifier In grammatical analysis the different kinds of terminology shown above are often mixed The same component in a sentence may have several different names Also the same term may be used both as a category and as a function The word verb for example is often used both to mean a part of speech and as the name of its function in the sentence There are often many different terms that apply to the same word or group of words The terms selected depend on the type of analysis which is being done CJ http://www.englishforums.com/English/ExplianAboutObjectiveComplement/vxdwm/post.htm#403881Mon, 13 Aug 2007 07:45:01 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:403881mister micawber 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 http://www.englishforums.com/English/GeneralQuestions/vgkcl/post.htm#366497Thu, 17 May 2007 12:36:46 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:366497anonymousHi 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 object for example The gift hasn t been given to Bob So here Bob is the same as the object pronoun him and not as the subject pronoun he So because of this I thought that the grammar only accepted if we always write The gift hasn t been given to him and not to Bob But if I don t misunderstood your explanation there s any problem if I also write or say The gift hasn t been given to Bob isn t it Best regards Camille http://www.englishforums.com/English/GrammarErrors/dccxz/post.htm#261210Thu, 31 Aug 2006 01:05:25 GMT946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:261210alienvoord 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 other words He s taller than I not He s taller than me She s smarter than he not She s smarter than him If on the other hand you re comparing direct or indirect objects the pronouns should be objective I ve never worked with a more difficult client than him There are some advantages to this traditional state of affairs If you observe this distinction you can be more precise in some comparisons Consider these two sentences He has more friends than I His total number of friends is higher than my total number of friends He has more friends than me I m not his only friend he has others The problem though is that in all but the most formal contexts than I sounds stuffy even unidiomatic Most people in most contexts treat than as a preposition and put all following pronouns in the objective case whether the things being compared are subjects or objects He s taller than me sounds more natural to most native English speakers This isn t a recent development people have been treating than as a preposition for centuries Consider the following from big name English and American writers Matthew Prior Better Answer For thou art a girl as much brighter than her As he was a poet sublimer than me Samuel Richardson s Clarissa 1 10 58 I am fitter for this world than you you for the next than me Lord Byron s letter of 2 November 1804 Lord Delawarr is considerably younger than me Robert Southey Well of St Keyne 51 She had been wiser than me For she took a bottle to Church William Faulkner s Reivers 4 82 Let Lucius get out He s younger than me and stouter too for his size