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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 = TuringV = does and will...reston what is a prepositional verb complement (or rest on is a phrasal verb with what as direct object)

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...

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;...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

All prepositional verbs take prepositional objects. True. But what do we do with ambi-structural "looked after"? They looked (DO) What evidence is there that speakers don't parse "look after" as a unit and "the sheep" as its direct object? It seems all too neat 'n tidy to lump verbs of...