By Prepositions, Direct objects

Re: Object of preposition

I think cake is the object of preposition in first sentence and the last piece is direct object.Second sentence i feel that "Books" is object of preposition because it starts from Of but i feel confuse as well because of adjective "Finest" before books. third i think...

Object of preposition

Both Marry and i wanted the last piece of cake.We both thought this novel was one of the finest books we had ever read.When it came to spring,my thoughts often turned to the years i had spent quarterbacking my high school football team. They would be subject, direct object or object of...

Gerunds. Participles. Infinitives, Help?

I have to identify the verbal phrases (and verbals) and for participles determine whether they are present, past, or irregular.For gerunds whether they are subjects, direct objects, predicate nominatives, or objects of prepositions. And finally for infinitives determine whether they are nouns,...

Re: Is it a subject relative?

Hello.Relative clauses can only be (from a syntactic point of view) either post-modifiers of nouns/pronouns, or sentence modifiers. They are never objects; they don't modify verbs.What can be subjects or objects, WITHIN the relative clauses themselves, are the relative pronouns used (who,...

Verbs

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...

Re: I am looking forward to (meet / meeting)? you

.There must be some way to alert non-native speakers that native teachers of English and trained ESLs generally know what they are talking about.Did you read this thread, Anon? Do we really have to waste our energies repeating ourselves over and over?Et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Sometimes I...

Re: About the meaning of "where"

I'll try to give some information on this as a non-professional.This is how it looks like in the serbian language,and I suppose,it is very similar in all other slavic languages and also the latin language.For indicating a location the locative case of a noun is used.If the english language...

Re: Whomever

It's not the combination with whomever that determines the choice whoever/whomever. It's the combination whoever the next president will be that determines the choice. The linking verb be (as in will be) does not take a direct object (whom); it takes a subject complement (who). So the...

Re: direct object indirect object object of a preposition help me! plz

This post is a little dated but since I've been working with my students on this very topic I thought I'd post.First, you can't understand what the "object of the preposition" is if you don't first know how to identify prepositions. So you need to find a list (google "list prepositions English"...

Re: Preposition placement

Spides wrote:All your sentences could be written with just "all" or "all of." I think that "all" would be designated a pronoun in each of your examples. It can be used as an adjective--She sat up all night--but in your sentences "all" means "the whole number or amount" and is the direct object...