Hi there..

[n_tash]

Sir,

I have some troubles with the sentence below

"The fact that many people here are getting promotion is causing my friend distress"

Subject is "The fact that many people here", am I right?

I can't realize which function has the part "my friend distress". Is it IO(my friend) and DO(distress), or DO and OC or something else ?

Thanks!

[fiona bramble]

Sir,

I have some troubles with the sentence below

"The fact that many people here are getting promotion is causing my friend distress"

Subject is "The fact that many people here", am I right?

I can't realize which function has the part "my friend distress". Is it IO(my friend) and DO(distress), or DO and OC or something else ?

Thanks!

I'm a "ma'am" but I'll try to answer your questions!
"The fact that many people here are getting promotion(s)" is the full subject (noun clause: the fact that+s+v)
"is causing" is the main verb
"my friend" is the object
"distress", well, actually I can't remember what it is called (besides a "noun", but its meaning is like a causative verb structure: "causing him to be distressed" .

Off thetop of my head I can't think if any other causative verbs can take a noun like that, but some other examples of cause + noun are:

cause her discomfort
cause her great pain


Hope that helps!

[n_tash]

Thanks ma'am ,