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Tkacka15 Posted 8 years ago
Grammar
How it came to have...
"The firm is under pressure to explain how it came to have unauthorised access to millions of Facebook profiles." (The Guardian.)
Is the indirect question "how it came to have unauthorised access to millions of Facebook profiles" a direct object of the verb "to explain" in the question above?
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Yes.
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tkacka15Is the indirect question "how it came to have unauthorised access to millions of Facebook profiles" a direct object of the verb "to explain" in the question above?
In the most recent approaches to grammar, a clause can never be called an object. In that methodology an interrogative content clause (indirect question) can be a complement (like an obj
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