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Hi, I need to write a sentence in the following pattern, and I don't see how it's possible. The pattern is: adjective + direct object + helping verb + subject + verb No articles allowed? So, something like 'Great strength did he use' . This kind of odd word order seems very literary...

From English grammar books, we learn that there are 6 types of basic sentence patterns around which you can expand to add more meaning. One of the patterns involves using a transitive verb with a direct object and an indirect object, both of which are nouns. In another pattern, the indirect...

Paco -- I'm not sure you can always say that the first of two objects is automatically the indirect object. What if you said "I told the story to the man in the long white coat"? "The story" is still the direct object, even though it now precedes the indirect object. "The man in the long white...

Hello again, Hella, and you're welcome. I cannot say you are wrong because I haven't read everything there is to read about English grammar. What I can say is that none of the authors I've read in the past 15 or 20 years consider that adverbials have anything to do with transitivity. The...

You're most welcome, Hela. I love everything connected with English grammar, and syntactic analysis is my favourite topic! I have A Grammar of Contemporary English and A University Grammar of English with me, so I can even give you page numbers to go with my words this time! In A Grammar...

The first thing to note is the spelling: the correct spelling is a-c-c-u-s-a-t-i-v-e. Another thing to note is that the term often employed to identify the "case" of words like "him", "her" and "whom" is Objective, rather than Accusative (which is misleading in a simplified grammar like...