Please,find here objects and attributes.

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Please,find here objects and attributes.
There was no reply, but in a moment Miss Glaser began to play the opening bars of one of Schumann’s songs. It was no strain on the voice, and I guessed that Miss Glaser knew what she was doing when she chose it.

Are "of one of Schumann’s songs" and "on the voice" prepositional objects?

AlpheccaStars · Accepted Answer

Daisy BlackAre "of one of Schumann’s songs" and "on the voice" prepositional objects?

No, they are prepositional phrases. The head word is a preposition, and the phrase includes the objects and their attributes (modifiers).

Daisy Black · Answer

But they must have syntactical functions...so they are the attributes?

AlpheccaStars · Answer

Are you asking about the objects of prepositions, or the function of the prepositional phrases?

Daisy Black · Answer

I need to single out objects and attributes from sentences...no more, no less.I don't know how it would be more correct.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

By "attributes" do you mean adjectives and adverbs?

Daisy Black · Answer

The attribute is a secondary part of the sentence which characterizes person or non-person expressed by the headword either qualitatively, quantitatively, or from the point of view of situation.

An attribute may be expressed by different parts of speech:

1. By (a) adjectives or (b) adjectival phrases, which characterize the person or non-person qualitatively or express the speaker’s attitude.
2. By pronouns or pronominal phrases, which help to identify or define persons or non-persons.
3. By numerals, ordinal or cardinal, which state the number or order, or serve to identify persons or non-persons, as in:
4. By (a) nouns in the common case singular or (b) prepositional nominal phrases, which characterize the person or non-person either qualitatively or from the point of view of its locative, temporal, or other features
5. By nouns or pronouns in the genitive case.
6. By statives, although these are rarely used as attributes. They usually postmodify the headword, though may occur as premodifying.
7. By (a) participles I and II and (b) participial phrases, characterizing the person or non-person through an action, process, or reaction.
8. By (a) gerunds, (b) gerundial phrases, or (c) gerundial complexes. Gerunds generally characterize non-persons from the point of view of their function or purpose.
9. By (a) infinitives, (b) infinitivel phrases, or (c) complexes, which characterize a person or non-person through some real or hypothetical action in which this person or non-person is or may be involved. Owing to the hypothetical nature of the action, an infinitive as attribute often imparts a modal shade of meaning to the action.
11. By sentences used as a whole (the so-called “quotation nouns”). These are used mainly as hyphenated chains before the headword.
12. By a clause (then called an attributive clause) which makes the whole sentence a complex one.
Some called me by the name which no one here knew.

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AlpheccaStars · Answer

This definition seems to be from a Russian resource. It is different from the terminology used in our grammar texts so I need to do some mental readjustment.

AlpheccaStars · Answer

I picked the underlined as "attributes."

There was no reply, but in a moment Miss Glaser began to play the opening bars of one of Schumann’s songs. It was no strain on the voice, and I guessed that Miss Glaser knew what she was doing when she chose it.

Objects. The primary objects are 1) an infinitive phrase and 2) a clause
Within the phrase and clause, there are other objects, since there are verbal elements which have objects.

There was no reply, but in a moment Miss Glaser began to play the opening bars of one of Schumann’s songs. It was no strain on the voice, and I guessed that Miss Glaser knew what she was doing when she chose it.

Please,find here objects and attributes.

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