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Silak12 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Subject and object?

Hi! everyone.
Could you help me identify the subject and the object in the sentence below?
Stroke incidence data are obtained from sources.
Thanks!
  

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The (passive) subject is "Stroke incidence data". There is no object.

  • The (passive) subject is "Stroke incidence data".
  • There is no object.
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The (passive) subject is "Stroke incidence data". There is no object.
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Suppose the sentence was "Stroke incidence data are obtained by us from sources.."
Would "us" be the object in the sentence?
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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.
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I am grateful to your precious time sir.
Could you tell me what a possible object of the above sentence can be?
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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.
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We obtained this stroke incidence data from various reliable sources.

Subject: we
Verb: obtained
Object: stroke incidence data
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silak12Stroke incidence data are obtained from sources.
You've got three constituencies in the sentence above:

1) Stroke incidence data - a noun phrase which functions as a subject of the sentence;
2) are obtained - a verb phrase which functions as a predicator of the sentence;
3) from sources - a prepositional phrase whic
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AnonymousYou've got three constituencies
constituents

Constituencies are groups of people represented by an elected government official.
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CalifJimconstituents
Thank 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.

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