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Ecik Posted 18 years ago
Grammar

Sentence elements

Dear users,

is the phrase in bold an adverbial or is it rather an object?

Mary left the room.

Kind regards
Ecik
  

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Welcome to EF, Ecik. Grammatical terminology varies from country to country but in my grammar the room is an object. CB

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Welcome to EF, Ecik. Grammatical terminology varies from country to country but in my grammar the room is an object.
CB
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Hello CB,

does it mean that 'to leave' is transitive in this sentence? Does it sound correct to say: 'the room was left (by Mary)?'

Ecik

P.S. Does your grammar have a title?
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Only transitive verbs take objects. The room was left by Mary sounds awkward to me but is of course grammatically correct. Not all correct sentences are actually used. English is a language of fixed phrases and sometimes the slightest deviation from what is normally said may sound unnatural.
However, I have noticed that occasionally native speakers accept as correct structures that sou
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