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Redkiddy Posted 20 years ago
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Hi from Turkiye,
I sometimes come across this problem in my mind and haven't had a chance to ask until now.
Look at these two sentence....
She hasn't written to him for a long time.
I love him very much .
in the first sentence we used "to" between verb and subject wheras in the second we didn't .WHY?
I sometimes come across this problem in my mind and haven't had a chance to ask until now.
Look at these two sentence....
She hasn't written to him for a long time.
I love him very much .
in the first sentence we used "to" between verb and subject wheras in the second we didn't .WHY?
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One answer is that in your first sentence, him is the indirect object; in the second, him is the direct object. PS: I mean, conceptually. To make it a grammatical indirect object, I can omit the to : She hasn't written him for a long time .
- One answer is that in your first sentence, him is the indirect object; in the second, him is the direct object.
- PS: I mean, conceptually.
- To make it a grammatical indirect object, I can omit the to : She hasn't written him for a long time .
- As it stands ( She hasn't written to him ), the prepositional phrase is an adverb.
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One answer is that in your first sentence, him is the indirect object; in the second, him is the direct object.
PS: I mean, conceptually. To make it a grammatical indirect object, I can omit the to: She hasn't written him for a long time. As it stands (She hasn't written to him), the prepositional phrase is an adverb.
PS: I mean, conceptually. To make it a grammatical indirect object, I can omit the to: She hasn't written him for a long time. As it stands (She hasn't written to him), the prepositional phrase is an adverb.
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