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2. Object (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   The following trees of a dependency grammar illustrate the hierarchical positions of subjects and objects: [15] The subject is in blue, and the object in orange. The subject is consistently a dependent of the finite verb , whereas the object is a dependent of the lowest non-finite verb if such a verb is present.

3. Cognate object - Wikipedia

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   More specifically, the verb is one that is ordinarily intransitive (lacking any object), and the cognate object is simply the verb's noun form. For example, in the sentence He slept a troubled sleep, sleep is the cognate object of the verb slept. This construction also has a passive form. The passive is A troubled sleep was slept by him.

4. Object pronoun - Wikipedia

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   In linguistics, an object pronoun is a personal pronoun that is used typically as a grammatical object: the direct or indirect object of a verb, or the object of a preposition. Object pronouns contrast with subject pronouns. Object pronouns in English take the objective case, sometimes called the oblique case or object case. [1]

5. Oblique case - Wikipedia

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   In grammar, an oblique (abbreviated OBL; from Latin: casus obliquus) or objective case (abbr. OBJ ) is a nominal case other than the nominative case and, sometimes, the vocative . A noun or pronoun in the oblique case can generally appear in any role except as subject , for which the nominative case is used. [ 1 ]

6. English grammar - Wikipedia

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   For example, a verb phrase consists of a verb together with any objects and other dependents; a prepositional phrase consists of a preposition and its complement (and is therefore usually a type of adverbial phrase); and a determiner phrase is a type of noun phrase containing a determiner.

7. Subject–verb–object word order - Wikipedia

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   In linguistic typology, subject–verb–object (SVO) is a sentence structure where the subject comes first, the verb second, and the object third. Languages may be classified according to the dominant sequence of these elements in unmarked sentences (i.e., sentences in which an unusual word order is not used for emphasis).

8. Control (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   Expletive there can appear as the "object" of a raising-to-object predicate, but not of a control verb, e.g. a. *Fred asked there to be a party. - Expletive there cannot appear as the object of a control predicate. b. Fred expects there to be a party. - Expletive there can appear as the object of a raising-to-object predicate. a.

9. Verb–subject–object word order - Wikipedia

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   In languages with V2 word order, such as most Germanic languages except for Modern English, as well as Ingush and Oʼodham, the verb is always the second element in a main clause. The subject precedes the verb by default, but if another word or phrase is put at the front of the clause, the subject is moved to the position immediately after the ...