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Silak12 Posted 9 years ago
Grammar

Subject and object ?

Hi! everyone.

Could you help identify the subject and object in the following sentence?

"They were meaningless to me."

Thanks!

  

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They were meaningless to me. The subject is "they", but "be" is not a transitive verb, so it has no object. The expression "meaningless" is an adjective phrase functioning as predicative complement of "be".

— BillJ

  • They were meaningless to me.
  • The subject is "they", but "be" is not a transitive verb, so it has no object.
  • The expression "meaningless" is an adjective phrase functioning as predicative complement of "be".
  • The PP "to me" is also complement of "be", though not predicative.
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They were meaningless to me.

The subject is "they", but "be" is not a transitive verb, so it has no object.

The expression "meaningless" is an adjective phrase functioning as predicative complement of "be". The PP "to me" is also complement of "be", though not predicative.

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