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Prodigy Posted 9 years ago
Grammar
Object Complement + Prepositional Phrase?
One last question (I promise!) - What group does this sentence "I talked to him about it" belong? The same group? Ditransitive prepositional verbs?
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Prodigy What group does this sentence "I talked to him about it" belong? It's nothing very special. 'talk' is intransitive in almost all its uses, as it is here.
- Prodigy What group does this sentence "I talked to him about it" belong?
- It's nothing very special.
- 'talk' is intransitive in almost all its uses, as it is here.
- So you have an intransitive verb accompanied by two prepositional phrases.
- The first tells who receives the message, so it has the force of an indirect object — though unlike a true indirect object (as in I told him about it ), it must be formulated as a prepositional phrase because the verb is 'talk', which doesn't take a true indirect object.
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ProdigyWhat group does this sentence "I talked to him about it" belong?
It's nothing very special. 'talk' is intransitive in almost all its uses, as it is here.
So you have an intransitive verb accompanied by two prepositional phrases. The first tells who receives the message, so it has the force of an indirect object — though unlike a true indirect o
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