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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

different structures

Provide evidence that this sentence has different structures with respect to their direct object and its prepositional phrase
"Ralph put the note on the door"
  

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"Ralph" is the subject of the sentence. " The verb "put" is transitive here and being transitive, it asks for a direct object, which is a noun. " Logic aside (one would more easily put a note than a door somewhere), we are immediately keyed into "the note" as the direct object of the verb, and "on the door" as something other than the direct object, since there is a preposition present, and there would be no preposition attached to a direct object.

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  • "Ralph" is the subject of the sentence.
  • " The verb "put" is transitive here and being transitive, it asks for a direct object, which is a noun.
  • " Logic aside (one would more easily put a note than a door somewhere), we are immediately keyed into "the note" as the direct object of the verb, and "on the door" as something other than the direct object, since there is a preposition present, and there would be no preposition attached to a direct object.
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"Ralph" is the subject of the sentence. The verb is "put." Then we have the group of words "the note on the door." The verb "put" is transitive here and being transitive, it asks for a direct object, which is a noun. There are two nouns in that group of words "note" and "door." Logic aside (one would more easily put a note than a door somewhere), we are immediately keyed into "the note" as th
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