The (passive) subject is "Stroke incidence data". There is no object.
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silak12Suppose the sentence was "Stroke incidence data are obtained by us from sources.."Would "us" be the object in the sentence?No, it would be the agent.
silak12Could you tell me what a possible object of the above sentence can be?I can't see how it is possible. Passive verbs generally do not have objects. I gather that, for example, "letter" in "I was given the letter", may be termed an object, but the verb "obtain" does not support any analogous construction.
silak12Stroke incidence data are obtained from sources.You've got three constituencies in the sentence above:
AnonymousYou've got three constituenciesconstituents
CalifJimconstituentsThank you for the correction. Dammit, it's always like that when the Android's algorithm prompts words to be put into the text and I do it, sorry to say, without careful proofreading.