Verb

Hi,

Someone else will have to help you out with the technical aspects but,

2. I run a dog. We don't run dogs, we only walk them, no matter what speed it happens at. To walk a dog means to take it outside for some exercise.

3. He sleeps like a cat.

For number 2, 'I run a dog' ('I run the dog'), an alternative would be: 'I take the dog for a run'. This means the same as 'I walk the dog'.

'To run a dog' is also a specialised phrase, which would only be used in circumstances such as these:

(a) racing greyhounds, where it means 'to enter in the race', e.g. 'I ran two dogs in the 7.30 at Walthamstow'.

(b) gun-dog tr

Hello,

Can any body help me here.

Thanks.

"a long distance" is a special kind of object, but I don't know what the special grammatical name of it is. Maybe someone else knows what it is called.

Would 'a long distance' in this sentence be 'an adverbial noun-phrase of measure'?

Would it be "the adverbial object"?

In Greek grammar, 'long distance' would be the 'accusative of extent'. In
Latin grammar, it would be the 'accusative of traversed space'.

'Accusative' here = 'object'.

So 'object of extent', perhaps.

MrP