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Eipjoo Posted 14 years ago
Grammar
On object complement
Given the sentence:
Two hours later, Harry's huge, heavy trunk had been loaded into the Dursleys' car,
Aunt Petunia had talked Dudley into sitting next to Harry, and they had set off.
The clause, ‘Aunt Petunia had talked Dudley into sitting next to Harry’ seems to have this structure:
Aunt Petunia (S) + had talked (V) + Dudley (O) + into sitting next to Harry (OC)
If then, is the OC constructed with [preposition ‘into’ + gerund ‘sitting’]?
Or do I have to look at different ways?
Two hours later, Harry's huge, heavy trunk had been loaded into the Dursleys' car,
Aunt Petunia had talked Dudley into sitting next to Harry, and they had set off.
The clause, ‘Aunt Petunia had talked Dudley into sitting next to Harry’ seems to have this structure:
Aunt Petunia (S) + had talked (V) + Dudley (O) + into sitting next to Harry (OC)
If then, is the OC constructed with [preposition ‘into’ + gerund ‘sitting’]?
Or do I have to look at different ways?
Top answer
'Talk (someone) into (doing something)' is a phrasal verb. This would make 'doing something' the noun object and 'someone' the IO.
- 'Talk (someone) into (doing something)' is a phrasal verb.
- This would make 'doing something' the noun object and 'someone' the IO.
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'Talk (someone) into (doing something)' is a phrasal verb. This would make 'doing something' the noun object and 'someone' the IO.
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eipjoo[preposition ‘into’ + gerund ‘sitting’]?Yes, but I wouldn't go so far as to call it an object complement. I'd leave it at 'a prepositional phrase'.
An object complement looks more like this:
Aunt Petunia called Dudley a thief. (She said: Dudley is a thief.)
There isn't even a hint in the original senten
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