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Selfconfident Posted 20 years ago
Grammar
Some questions about prepositional phrase
Is it possible for a Prepositional phrase to be an adverbial and object complements phrase at the same time?
There are some sentences:
(1)She led me [into the drawing-room].
(2)I saw the movie [on Friday].
(3)He had a gun [with him].
(4)We had some guests [for dinner] last night.
(5)The police protect him [from being attack].
(6)We must get the rock [out of the path].
Thank you for your help.
There are some sentences:
(1)She led me [into the drawing-room].
(2)I saw the movie [on Friday].
(3)He had a gun [with him].
(4)We had some guests [for dinner] last night.
(5)The police protect him [from being attack].
(6)We must get the rock [out of the path].
Thank you for your help.
Top answer
They all seem to be adverbials, but none complements the object.
- They all seem to be adverbials, but none complements the object.
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They all seem to be adverbials, but none complements the object.
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But some grammarians regarded Prepositional phrase as object complements phrase.
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Sure, but not any of those that you just posted, unless I'm drunker than usual. Here is a prepositional phrase as object complement:
From the door, I saw the man under the table (and it might have been myself). Under the table modifies man, which is the object of saw.
From the door, I saw the man under the table (and it might have been myself). Under the table modifies man, which is the object of saw.
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How to distinguish the object complement from the pattern S+V+O+[prepositional phrase].
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How to distinguish the object complement from the pattern S+V+O+[prepositional phrase].This has to be done semantically, I think-- in any case, that is what I do. You have to understand the meaning of the prepositional phrase and decide to what it refers.
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In this sentence-You can leave your case [with me].
Is this [prepositional phrase] the object complement?
Is this [prepositional phrase] the object complement?
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SelfconfidentIn this sentence-You can leave your case [with me]. Is this [prepositional phrase] the object complement?I think if the [preposition phrase] describes "where", "how", "who", 'what" and "when", it's function is adverbial.
In your sentence, [with me] is functioning as an adverbial phrase. As it was mentioned by others in earlier threads,
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You said that[I think if the [preposition phrase] describes "where", "how", "who", 'what" and "when", it's function is adverbial.]
but,why[From the door, I saw the man under the table (and it might have been myself). Under the table modifies man, which is the object of saw.]in this sentence Prepositional phrase modifies where the man is,why this Prepositional phrase can be regarded as objec
but,why[From the door, I saw the man under the table (and it might have been myself). Under the table modifies man, which is the object of saw.]in this sentence Prepositional phrase modifies where the man is,why this Prepositional phrase can be regarded as objec
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