TYPES OF OBJECT
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 570.
THE OBJECT
THE OBJECT is a secondary part of the sentence which completes or restricts the meaning of a verb or sometimes an adjective or a noun.
She has bought a pine apple.
I am glad to see you.
Who is afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?
She passed the examunexpectedly to herself.
From the point of view of their structure objects may be:
1) simple:I've never seen youbefore.
She promised to come.
2) phrasal:I've brought a lot of money.
Do you know Miss Sibyl Vane?
3) complex: Nobody knew of his being absent.
We waited for the lesson to begin.
She thinks herself very bright.
I want you to go out.
4) clausal:Do you know what it all means?
He was amazed by what he saw there.
OBJECT
 |  |  | |||
  DIRECT
(non-prepositional)
| INDIRECT | COGNATE (non-prepositional) |
  RECIPIENT
| NON-RECIPIENT (prepositional) |
| (non-prepositional) | (prepositional) to, for |
THE DIRECT OBJECT
is a non-prepositional object that follows transitive verbs and adjectives and completes their meaning.
I wrote a book.Nobody reads it.
She saw me leave.
| <== previous lecture | | | next lecture ==> |
| AGREEMENT OF THE PREDICATE WITH THE SUBJECT | | | THE INDIRECT OBJECT |