Thank you very much, Jim and Yankee. CalifJim wrote: If I won't shoot at any soldier, I won't kill any soldiers. Just my point. In both cases I would use the plural because both are complements, not adjuncts. That's why I said complement

If I won't shoot at any soldier, I won't kill any soldiers. Just my point. In both cases I would use the plural because both are complements, not adjuncts. That's why I said complement rather than object. shoot at is a prepositional verb with

I guess if you don't know the verb at all, you're stuck, Lana. There are no prescriptive rules, only guidelines. Greenbaum & Quirk list five differences: (1) The particle of a prepositional verb must precede the object, but the particle of a

Hi again, Lupa. You don't seem to have any problems with it! You got it right. You're right that in a), "turn on" is a transitive phrasal verb; the adverbial particle "belongs" to the verb, so to speak. In b), on the other hand, you have