'Look after' is used with these nouns as the object
In Oxford Collocations Dictionary for students of English 2nd, it says:
'Look after' is used with these nouns as the object: baby, health, interest, kid, relative, sick, thing
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Does 'as the object' refer to 'these nouns'? However, does this sentence have any grammatical wrong?
From an grammatical point of view, I would think that it means that "'Look after' is used...as the object" (ie use...as ), so 'as the object' refers to 'Look after'.
What do you think about it?
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kadioguy Does 'as the object' refer to 'these nouns'? Yes. as ), so 'as the object' refers to 'Look after'.
- kadioguy Does 'as the object' refer to 'these nouns'?
- Yes.
- as ), so 'as the object' refers to 'Look after'.
- I think it should not be understood that way.
- If it was meant to be as you have understood, I think a comma would be used as shown below: 'Look after' is used with these noun s, as the object:
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kadioguyDoes 'as the object' refer to 'these nouns'?
Yes.
kadioguyI would think that it means that "'Look after' is used...as the object" (ie use...as ), so 'as the object' refers to 'Look after'.
I think it should not be understood that way.
If it was meant to be as you have understood, I think a comma woul
0Please look after the baby.
From a strictly grammatical point of view, the underlined constituent is a prepositional verb. Prepositions typically take an object. In the given example, the noun phrase 'the baby' functions as object of the preposition 'after'.
Further, only noun phrases can function as object.
kadioguyDoes 'as the object' refer
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