Object Complement + Prepositional Phrase?

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Prepositional verbs can't be separated from its verb

Sorry! I meant: Prepositional verbs can't be separated from its particle (preposition).

However, I completely understood your point, if ditransitive verbs take two direct objects, then we can easily say that that is a ditransitive prepositional verb, althought what I said: they can't be separated.. However, I got it.

Furthermore, I have one more question:

To what pattern do these sentences belong? - I turned him into a monster, I threw the stick onto the roof, I knocked the ball off my hands.

Are they also ditransitive verbs with a direct object (monster, stick and roof) and a prepositional phrase (into a monster, onto the roof and off my hands) acting as a second complement?

Sorry for these questions, I can easily build sentences of these kind; however, I need to have a great mastery over grammatical terms and structures since I want to be a teacher.

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

Prodigy I have one more question

I turned him into a monster.
prepositional ditransitive ("turned ... into" is the fixed pattern.)
I threw the stick onto the roof.
(Ordinary) monotransitive with a prepositional phrase
I knocked the ball off my hand.
(Ordinary) monotransitive with a prepositional phrase

'throw' and 'knock', as used in your sentences, do not occur in fixed patterns as 'throw ... onto' and 'knock ... off', as can be seen by the following.

I threw the stick through the window.  / I threw the stick against the wall.
I knocked the ball over the fence. / I knocked the ball toward the garage.

ProdigyI want to be a teacher.

I'll bet that most English teachers, even in the US, Canada, and the UK, have never heard the words "ditransitive prepositional verb", so you are already ahead of quite a few others.

CJ

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