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Anonymous Posted 4 years ago
Grammar

Verb; to wait for

In the following example:

He is waiting for his mother to come to his place.

The part of the sentence: "waiting for his mother...", is it just a prepositional clause? or is "... his mother..." who receives the action? Is "...her mother..." an indirect object? As far as I understand it is a direct object and I know it is a prepositional clause, but it is nor clear for if "...her mother..." receives the action of waiting

English is my Second Languafe

Thanks for your help

Luis

  

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anonymous He is waiting for his mother to come to his place. The way I parse that is "his mother to come to his place" is an infinitive noun clause acting as the object of "for".

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  • anonymous He is waiting for his mother to come to his place.
  • The way I parse that is "his mother to come to his place" is an infinitive noun clause acting as the object of "for".
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anonymousHe is waiting for his mother to come to his place.

The way I parse that is "his mother to come to his place" is an infinitive noun clause acting as the object of "for".

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anonymousfor his mother to come to his place

This is an infinitival clause — a non-finite construction. Such a construction is sometimes also called a "for-to" clause. 'for' is called a complementizer.

The corresponding finite clause is

"[His mother]subj [comes to his place]pred".

The infinitival clause is the

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