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Pb2003 Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
sentence structure/ (in)transitive verb
In the following sentences :
1) She is enormous rich. What is "enormous rich" : complement, adverbial or object ?
2) The man wrote a book. What is "a book" , object or complement ?
3) They liked each other. What is "each other", complement or object ?
4) He gave me the letter. Is "gave" a transitive or intransitive verb ? And is "me" indirect object and "the letter" direct object ?
5) That flower smells good. Is "smells" an intransitive verb ?
1) She is enormous rich. What is "enormous rich" : complement, adverbial or object ?
2) The man wrote a book. What is "a book" , object or complement ?
3) They liked each other. What is "each other", complement or object ?
4) He gave me the letter. Is "gave" a transitive or intransitive verb ? And is "me" indirect object and "the letter" direct object ?
5) That flower smells good. Is "smells" an intransitive verb ?
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Pb2003 In the following sentences : 1) She is enormous rich. What is "enormous rich" : complement, adverbial or object ? complement 2) The man wrote a book.
- Pb2003 In the following sentences : 1) She is enormous rich.
- What is "enormous rich" : complement, adverbial or object ?
- complement 2) The man wrote a book.
- What is "a book" , object or complement ?
- (direct) object 3) They liked each other.
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Pb2003In the following sentences :
1) She is enormous rich. What is "enormous rich" : complement, adverbial or object ?complement
2) The man wrote a book. What is "a book" , object or complement ?(direct) object
3) They liked each other. What is "each other", complement or object ?
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Pb2003In the following sentences :
1) She is enormous rich. What is "enormous rich" : complement, adverbial or object ?
enormously = adverb
rich = adjective
2) The man wrote a book. What is "a book" , object or complement ?
Object.
3) They liked each o
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Marius HancuShe is enormously rich.Good catch, Hancu. It seems to me, however, that I've seen this somewhat stuffy-sounding use of enormous as an adverb in, perhaps, Dickens. Defintely in the substandard American cowboy setting: "I'm powerful hungry". Am I imagining an 18th-century use, or can someo
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Yes, Philip, it sounds like Jane Austen, doesn't it? I think we can agree that modern standard usuage would be enormously.
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Grammar GeekYes, Philip, it sounds like Jane Austen, doesn't it? I think we can agree that modern standard usuage would be enormously.Just for fun, I Googled "exceeding glad" and got more than 57,000 hits. I have no idea how many were duplicates, but two stood out: Jonah 4:6 and Pepys' Diary, neither of which is any ways near "m
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