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Re: Trouble finding subject and objects in this sentence

Mister Micawber — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 23:43:08 GMT

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Hello V878-- and welcome to English Forums.

On what does and will the fame of Turing rest? = The fame of Turing rests and will rest on what?

S = Turing
V = does and will...rest

on what is a prepositional verb complement (or rest on is a phrasal verb with what as direct object)

Verbs

ganesh77 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:38:41 GMT

The list isn't meant to be exhaustive or carefully arranged. Any additions, corrections or further examples would be welcomed.

1 main verbs; lexical verbs (all verbs which are not auxiliaries or modals)

2 action verbs; event verbs; dynamic verbs (a verb which can be used in continuous tenses) i.e. eat, run, talk

3 state of being verbs; existence verbs; state verbs; stative verbs; static verbs (a verb which describes a state and is not usually used in a continuous tense) i.e. be, own, know

4 regular verbs (a verb that has four forms and follows the normal rules)

5 irregular verbs; strong verbs (a verb not following the normal rules for inflection)

6 auxiliary and modal verbs (which make up verbal phrases) â 23 in total

7 linking verbs; copulative verbs; copulas (a verb which links the subject and complement of a clause) i.e. It is warm today.

8 transitive verbs (a verb used to talk about an action or event that involves more than one person or thing, and so is followed by an object) i.e. Sheâs wasting her money.

9 intransitive verbs (a verb used to talk about an action or event that only involved the subject and so has no object) i.e. She arrived.

10 multiword verbs

a type 1 â intransitive [phrasal verbs; adverb particle

b type 2 â transitive (inseparable) [prepositional verbs; preposition particles]

c type 3 â transitive (separable) [phrasal verbs; adverb particle]

d type 4 â transitive (with two inseparable particles) [phrasal-prepositional verbs; first particle is an adverb, second particle is a preposition]

11 compound verbs

12 delexical verbs (a verb which has very little meaning in itself but is used with an object to describe an action) i.e. She gave a small cry.

13 ditransitive verbs (a verb which can have both a direct and indirect object) i.e. She gave me a kiss.

14 ergative verbs (a verb which can be used transitively to focus on the performer of the action, or intransitively to focus on the thing affected by the action) i.e. He boiled the water. The water boiled.

15 reporting verbs; performance verbs; performative verbs (a verb used with a quote or a reported clause to describe what people say or think) i.e. suggest, say, wonder

16 reciprocal verbs (a verb which describes an action involving two people doing the same thing to each other) i.e. They met in the street.

17 reflexive verbs (a verb which is typically used with a reflexive pronoun) i.e. Donât cut yourself with that knife.

18 defective verbs (a verb without all the inflected forms of a regular verb) i.e. modals

19 finite and non-finite

a infinitives

b gerunds; verbal nouns

c participles

20 catenative verbs (a verb that takes other verb forms as objects; found at the head of a series of linked constructions) i.e. We agreed to try to decide to stop eating snacks.

21 causative verbs (a verb that designates the action necessary to cause another action to happen) i.e. The devil made me do it.

Re: Can a prepositional phrase function as a noun?

Mister Micawber — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 03:23:56 GMT

Tell about is one of the 'prepositional verbs', where the prepositional phrase is considered an alternative 'paraphrase' of the direct object .

I told her (IO) the facts (DO)
I told the facts (DO) to her (prepositional complement)
I told her (IO) about the facts (prepostional complement)

I understand your reasoning, but this is the way it is explained in CGEL. Does that help?

Re: sentence analysis 2

MrPedantic — Mon, 23 Jan 2006 23:40:03 GMT

Hello Hela

Sorry, I've only just seen your thread:

1. I would take "shine on" as a prepositional verb, and "us" as the prepositional object. But other parsers will disagree...

2. I wonder whether we could take "a perfect game" as a cognate object here. She didn't literally "pitch" the game; she pitched balls in such a way that she did well in the game. Thus "a game" denotes something that is already implied in the verb.

I would simply call "and" a coordinating conjunction.

3. I would take "to swap houses" as the object of "want", and "houses" as the object of "swap".

4. Yes, the sentence is fine: the violins in an orchestra are divided into "first violins" and "second violins". The "in the...ROH" phrase would sound a little odd if fronted. "Adverbial of place" seems ok; though it isn't so much "location", as "context for a role". (I wonder whether there's a subdivision of adverbials that relates to "organizational context".)

5. I would take "a letter of complaint" as the direct object, and "about the service" as a prepositional phrase that acts as an adjectival attribute of the direct object.

With the "complaining" version, I would take "complaining about" as a participle (prepositional verb) modifying "letter", and "the service" as the prepositional object.

6. Yes, I think that's how I'd do it too.

I expect I've erred somewhere or other, though; in which case another member will point it out!

MrP

Need help with some questions!

Confused Again — Fri, 11 Nov 2005 17:58:48 GMT

I need a few of the regulars out there to help me out again, could you please check what I've answered so far and tell me if I'm right? If I'm wrong please simply point me in the right direction and I'll try again.

Unfortunately questions B and C have stumped me, so I'd be grateful if anyone could direct me to a grammar point which I can look up in a book.

Thanks for any help you can throw my way.

Why can you sayâ¦â¦..?

A 'a car' but not 'a water'?

Because 'a car' is a countable noun, whereas âwaterâ is an uncountable noun.

B 'I'm having a bath' but not 'I'm having long hair'?

C 'He raised the prices' but not 'he rose the prices'?

D 'I waited' but not 'I goed'?

Because 'wait' is a regular verb, whereas 'go' is an irregular verb.

E 'He looked the word up' but not 'he looked the chimney up'?

Both examples contain multiword verbs. The first example is known as a phrasal verb, the direct object ('the word') can go between the verb and the particle. The second example is known as a prepositional verb and the direct object (âthe chimneyâ) canât go between the verb and the particle.

Re: Prepositional Object, Complement of Preposition and other confusing stu

MichalS — Wed, 26 Oct 2005 15:06:22 GMT

Hello Cj,
Thank you for your answer!

Longman distinguishes 3 types of object: Direct, Indirect and Prepositional (I believe that the classification is the same in Quirk, isn't it?).

It looks to me that Longman also distinguishes "Object of a Preposition" from "Complement of a Preposition". It's not clearly said but I guess that "Complement of Preposition" is just a complement in a Prepositional Phrase, that is, a complement of a preposition as in "in the river". Prepositional Object, in turn, would be the object of a Prepositional Verb as in "He gave it to me". That's what I figure out from the whole thing. Do you think that such classification makes sense? Maybe somebody who knows the Longman book could confirm that?

As far as my third question is concerned, I seem to understand things now. Thanks for a great explanation and sorry for the mistake about the passive

P.S.
Can you tell me if my analysis of the following sentence is good?
"I would like to have another tea"
I - subject
would like to have - verb
another tea - direct object

Can there be any other interpretations of that?

Re: Prepositional Object, Complement of Preposition and other confusing stu

CalifJim — Mon, 24 Oct 2005 02:24:09 GMT

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 prepositional verb is a combination of verb and preposition. The preposition is followed by its object. However, an object of a preposition does not only follow a prepositional verb. Prepositional phrases, that is, preposition and noun, can be found in other locations within a sentence. If the phrasal verb is intransitive, nothing need follow it. If it is transitive its direct object follows.

2. I believe that "Object of a Preposition" and "Complement of a Preposition" are simply two different terms which mean the same thing. According to the quote you provided from your book, the entity referred to by both of those terms would be an oblique object.

3. Neither example given is passive, so I'm uncertain what you are asking regarding the passive.

In my opinion, the standard terminology says that there are direct objects, indirect objects, and objects of prepositions. The object of the preposition "to" can be an indirect object and an object of a preposition at the same time. Otherwise the three categories are mutually exclusive.

Paul won the prize. ("the prize" is a direct object.)
Paul gave Mary the letter. ("Mary" is an indirect object. "letter" is a direct object.)
Paul gave the letter to Mary. ("Mary" is the object of the preposition "to" and is an indirect object. "letter" is again a direct object.)
Paul traveled to Italy. ("Italy" is the object of the preposition "to" but is not an indirect object.)
The man with the black hat drove his car into the garage. ("hat" is the object of the preposition "with". "garage" is the object of the preposition "into". "car" is a direct object. Note that "with the black hat" has an object of a preposition, but it is not positioned after a verb.)

I believe Longman wants to classify these different kinds of objects differently. He wants only two categories: direct objects (with the same definition as seen in the examples above), and oblique objects (any other kind of object).

CJ

Prepositional Object, Complement of Preposition and other confusing stuff.

MichalS — Sun, 23 Oct 2005 17:24:18 GMT

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 with that

A lot of my doubts arose after reading a short passage about Prepositional Objects in the book mentioned above. I'll quote it so you know better what I'm refering to.

"(...) Prepositional objects and indirect objects are alike in that they require a mediating element (a preposition or a direct object). The correspondence is particularly close with indirect objects and corresponding prepositional construction:

Indirect object
He [gave] Carrie a ring.
Prepositional object
Mr Evans [gave] it [to] me.

To stress the correspondence, it may be convenient the use the term oblique object (...)"

And here are my questions:
1) Does Prepositional Object always follow a Prepositional Verb or does it appear in other contexts? And what follows a Phrasal Verb?
2) What's the difference between Prepositional Object and Complement of a Preposition and which one is called 'Oblique Object'?
3) I always thought that Indirect Object stays an object in passive but the passage above shows that it becomes Prepositional Object in this case... Or maybe I just get it wrong???

Please, answer to these questions if you can because these things are haunting me all the time.
Thank you,
Michal

sentence analysis of phrasal verbs

Hela — Thu, 06 Oct 2005 08:41:21 GMT

Dear teachers,

Would you please help me to solve this problem?

Example 1: I have been looking for you everywhere.

"Parsing" = sentence analysis (correct use ?)

Form + Function :
I = Noun Phrase = subject
have been looking = Verb Phrase = transitive verb
for you = Prepositional Phrase you = object of the prep. "for"
everywhere = Adverb Phrase = adverbial of place

OR

have been looking for = Verb Phrase = transitive verb
you = Noun Phrase = direct object

Example 2: The building opposite our school is being pulled down.

Form + Function:
The building ... shcool = NP = subject
is being pulled down = VP = intransitive verb

OR

is being pulled = Verb Phrase = intransitive verb
down = Adverb Phrase = adverbial of place ??

Do you consider "look for" and "pulled down" as prepositional verbs or as phrasal verbs? i.e. are "for" and "down" part of the verb or do they start a new sentence element?

Thank you for your help.
Hela

Re: Prep. verb + prep. object, or V + adverbial PP ??

Casi — Sun, 06 Mar 2005 14:01:55 GMT

Phrasal Verbs are easily distinguished from prepositional verbs.

I'm not all that convinced it's so cut 'n dried. Meaning plays a vital role.

She looked over the fence. (adverb; she looked where?)
?The fence was looked over.

She looked over the fence. (direct object)
The fence was looked over. (given the once over, inspected)

Moreover, for the majority of non-native speakers, the acceptability of a passivized sentence is difficult to determine:

She dropped by the house. (adverb; reflexive: she dropped herself by the house)
?The house was dropped by.

She dropped off the keys. (direct object)
The keys were dropped off.

And then there's insertion, and movement to contend with:

She dropped me off the keys. (colloquial; IO "me" / to me) [this is a good test, actually]
She dropped the keys off for me. (dropped off -> keys off) [this test is suspect, though]

If there's an all encompassing test out there that works, I'd love to hear about.