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Persian Learner Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
Indirect and direct object.
Hi.
We sent them to our families.
My textbook says that the above sentence has a direct object (them) and a prepositional phrase (to our families).
Now it wants the student to restate the sentence so that it has a direct and indirect object. But I don't know what to put in place of them.
We sent our families----?-------.
And I'm not quite sure about the following one.
She order some for us.
She ordered us some.
Is it correct?
We sent them to our families.
My textbook says that the above sentence has a direct object (them) and a prepositional phrase (to our families).
Now it wants the student to restate the sentence so that it has a direct and indirect object. But I don't know what to put in place of them.
We sent our families----?-------.
And I'm not quite sure about the following one.
She order some for us.
She ordered us some.
Is it correct?
Top answer
-------. Unless you know what "them" refers to, and are allowed to substitute that, it would have to be "We sent our families them", but stylistically it is not a great sentence. A full noun in place of "them" would work, but "them" seems weak at the end.
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- Unless you know what "them" refers to, and are allowed to substitute that, it would have to be "We sent our families them", but stylistically it is not a great sentence.
- A full noun in place of "them" would work, but "them" seems weak at the end.
- "We sent our families these" reads better, but it is not very clear to me that such a substitution is allowed.
- Is it correct?
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Persian LearnerWe sent our families----?-------.Unless you know what "them" refers to, and are allowed to substitute that, it would have to be "We sent our families them", but stylistically it is not a great sentence. A full noun in place of "them" would work, but "them" seems weak at the end.
"We sent our families these" reads better, but it is not
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GPYexcept I think you made a typo in the first sentenceYes... .
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Persian LearnerWe sent our families----?-------.We sent our families them is probably what your textbook expects you to write. It seems to me that your textbook is providing exercises in which you learn to transform syntactic patterns blindly without regard to how good or bad the result is.
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