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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

basic sentence pattern

can an object of the preposition be a direct object?
  

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Anonymous can an object of the preposition be a direct object? No. - - Is this 'look' + 'for me' or 'look for' + 'me'?

— Mister Micawber

  • Anonymous can an object of the preposition be a direct object?
  • No.
  • - - Is this 'look' + 'for me' or 'look for' + 'me'?
  • - - Ditto
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Anonymouscan an object of the preposition be a direct object?
No.
However, grammarians sometimes argue over prepositional verbs as to whether the preposition goes with the verb, leaving the following noun a direct object, or whether the prepositional phrase is independent, leaving the noun the object of a preposition, as in:

Look for me at the
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