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Anonymous Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Grammar

We should thank him for the gift.

I requested him for the book.

To which category of grammar the parts,'for the gift' and 'for the book' belong.Can they be object complements or prepositional adverbial phrases.If not, why?
  

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I requested him for the book is ungrammatical, or at least cryptic in meaning, but in any case the parts of speech are these: for - preposition the - determiner gift - noun book - noun CJ

  • I requested him for the book is ungrammatical, or at least cryptic in meaning, but in any case the parts of speech are these: for - preposition the - determiner gift - noun book - noun CJ
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I requested him for the book is ungrammatical, or at least cryptic in meaning, but in any case the parts of speech are these:

for - preposition

the - determiner

gift - noun

book - noun

CJ

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