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Silvia Black Posted 11 years ago
Grammar

Where are the objects here?

1) Here was the news for us.
2) She taught the older girls sewing.
3) I shared a cabin with him.
  

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1. us (object of preposition) 2. girls (indirect) sewing (direct) -(there may be another way of looking at this) 3.

— Philip

  • 1.
  • us (object of preposition) 2.
  • girls (indirect) sewing (direct) -(there may be another way of looking at this) 3.
  • him (object of preposition) cabin (direct object)
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1. us (object of preposition)
2. girls (indirect) sewing (direct) -(there may be another way of looking at this)
3. him (object of preposition) cabin (direct object)
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Thanks for help. I have some questions...

1. us (object of preposition)
And what about "news"? What member of the sentence is it?


2. girls (indirect) sewing (direct) -(there may be another way of looking at this)...
What way? I want to know other possible variants...
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Silvia BlackAnd what about "news"? What member of the sentence is it?
Subject.
Silvia Black2. girls (indirect) sewing (direct) -(there may be another way of looking at this)...
I see no other way.
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Can it be that "the older girls sewing" - is a Gerundial Construction?
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Silvia BlackCan it be that "the older girls sewing" - is a Gerundial Construction?
I didn't mean to confuse the issue. I think A-Stars and I have identified it correctly. I just wanted to allow a difference of opinion from a different source.
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Maybe any of teese sentenses has a Gerundial Construction? There should be one definitely. If it's not "the older girls sewing", I don't know what it is.
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Silvia BlackCan it be that "the older girls sewing" - is a Gerundial Construction?
No. 'sewing' is a gerund (and direct object), but 'the older girls' is a separate thing (indirect object).

CJ
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"Sewing" is a gerund. The only likely sense is that "sewing" is an indirect object: it's the subject that was taught to the older girls. If you stretch a point, you could claim that "sewing" is an adjective modifying girls, with the meaning that the girls who were sewing were taught (i.e., they were students). No native speaker of English would prefer the latter.
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deadratThe only likely sense is that "sewing" is an indirect object:
They taught sewing (direct object) to the girls (indirect object).
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Silvia BlackCan it be that "the older girls sewing" - is a Gerundial Construction?
She taught the older girls sewing.

This is an issue of whether forms ending in -ing are verbs or nouns. "She taught the older girls sewing" is strictly speaking ambiguous, but the verb is the more salient interpretation ("She taught the older girls to sew"
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