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Re: Appositive, direct object, indirect, predicate nominative, object of prepos

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:45:52 GMT

"Scurvy, a vitamin C deficiency, makes people weak and sore."

Scurvy is the subject, because it is the thing which "makes people weak and sore."
People is the direct object, because it is what scurvy is affecting, direct objects usually follow verbs.
Weak and sore are objective complements, because they modify the direct object, people.

"Scurvy was the leading cause of death among sailors in the early eighteen century."

Cause is the predicate nominative, because it stands for the subject, scurvy.
Sailors is the object of a preposition, because it follows the preposition among, and acts as the subject of the prepositional phrase.

"In 1753, James Lind, a Scottish naval surgeon, showed that citrus could cure scurvy."

Surgeon is an appositive for James Lind, because it describes him further, but is not essential to the sentence.

"When the British navy gave sailors fresh citrus juice, scurvy disappeared from their ships."

Navy is the subject, because it is the thing which gave.
Sailors is an indirect object, because they are the people to whom the juice was given.
Juice is the direct object, because it is the thing which was given.

"Today, scurvy is rare; it is usually seen only in very old or very young patients whose diets are deficient in vitamin C."

Vitamin C is an object of a preposition because it is the subject of the prepositional phrase, "in vitamin C."

When trying to diagram a sentence I think it becomes easier when you take out the unnecessary words. For example change "scurvy was the leading cause of death among sailors in the early eighteen century," to "scurvy was the cause of death among sailors in century." The latter is less senseful, but makes it easier to diagram the sentence's nouns. Of course that method wouldn't work as well when you're asked to diagram words other than nouns.
I hope this made some sense, and helped!
-Nathan

Re: Appositive, direct object, indirect, predicate nominative, object of prepos

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 11:09:28 GMT

Re: to which

Cool Breeze — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 09:01:35 GMT

To which, in which etc.consist of a preposition and a relative pronoun. The preposition is usually determined by a verb, noun or adjective. In informal style the preposition is often placed at the end of the relative clause. Examples:

This is the house in which he lives. This is the house [which/that] he lives in.

The preposition is in because that preposition is used with house in this context and meaning: He lives in this house.

I bought the book about which you told me yesterday. I bought the book [which/that] you told me about yesterday.

The preposition is about because that preposition is used when we tell somebody about something: He told me about his problems.

Where is sometimes possible instead of to which or in which, especially when the intended meaning is that the place of something is mentioned:

Take this kettle to the kitchen where it belongs.

But: Ages ago, this island was occupied by Great Britain, to which it belongs even now / which it belongs to even now.

Note that there is a comma in the last sentence. A comma is needed for a certain type of relative clauses. Use the Search box to find out more about them.

Re: Numbers

Liveinjapan — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 10:39:07 GMT

Thanks, 26.

Got it.

I think 'troop cuts' also possible.

New2, do you mean why the transitive cut needs the preposition down? I think down could be an adverb and cut down is a commonly used phrazal verb. Anyways I can't answer it properly.

Re: adj & verbs with prepositions - pronunciation

Kooyeen — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:43:17 GMT

Here's a gift for you. <-- FOR is not stressed, and so it'll be replaced by a weak form, which will sound like FUR.
What are you waiting for? <-- Exception: this FOR is nor stressed completely, but you could say it has a secondary stress, and so it's not reduced. This happens when you have prepositions or words that might take the weak form at the end of a statement. Another example like this: Give it to me ("to" is weak) - I don't want to ("to" is not weak).

Re: adj & verbs with prepositions - pronunciation

sumryan — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 18:11:53 GMT

Adjectives and verbs are considered 'content words' so they are usually stressed. Prepositions are considered 'function or structure words' so they are usually unstressed.
Of course, as explained by the author above, this all depends on the context.

Here is a link to a sentence stress lesson
http://www.englishclub.com/pronunciation/sentence-stress.htm

Susan
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Re: near/nearby

Avangi — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 14:44:25 GMT

I think of "nearby" as an adverb and "near" as a preposition. (Both can be adjectives: She lives in a nearby neighborhood. The Dow will continue to lose money in the near term.)

I would say, "I live close by / to the city center, and my friend lives nearby."

I'd be inclined to view your number 2 as incorrect, but I could be wrong. Number one is fine.

Edit. My dictionary allows "near" as an adverb, in "Please come near the fire."

There seem to be several ways to look at it.

- A.

Re: adj & verbs with prepositions - pronunciation

Mr Wordy — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 00:08:38 GMT

In speech, prepositions are usually unstressed. They would be unstressed, for example, in "I'd like to apply for a loan", or "I'm so proud of you".

They can be stressed when a contrast is being made, or there is some other reason for emphasis: "I told you to put the food in the freezer" (not, say, on top of it); "Finished my bath? I'm not even in it yet!"; "Stop talking over me!".

adj & verbs with prepositions - pronunciation

Anonymous — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 21:54:38 GMT

Hi
I have a question.. when we have an adjective or verb with preposition eg. apply for, pround of..where does the stress is? which are weak forms or sounds?

Re: gaining sovereignty

Clive — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 00:16:50 GMT

Hi,
My instinct is that it's because the verb is followed by one or more prepositions.

I have never and will never cook dinner doesn't sound terrible to me.

Clive