bizt
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Hi,
I'm trying to understand the object of a sentence for different sentences, I can understand a basic sentence's object fine..
"She hurled stones"
"We saw a baby"
"I heard a car"
... but what about the following sentences:
"She hurled stones at the crowd"
"We saw a baby sleeping"
"I heard a car driving on the road"
The above contains verbs as adjectives for the object (sleeping, driving) and prepositions (at the crowd, on the road). Below is my understanding of this but I may very well be wrong.
"She hurled stones at the crowd"
"We saw a baby sleeping"
"I heard a car driving on the road"
Anyway clarification on this would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Bizt
I'm trying to understand the object of a sentence for different sentences, I can understand a basic sentence's object fine..
"She hurled stones"
"We saw a baby"
"I heard a car"
... but what about the following sentences:
"She hurled stones at the crowd"
"We saw a baby sleeping"
"I heard a car driving on the road"
The above contains verbs as adjectives for the object (sleeping, driving) and prepositions (at the crowd, on the road). Below is my understanding of this but I may very well be wrong.
"She hurled stones at the crowd"
- The preposition is relevant to the verb in the sentence, not the object. So "stones" alone is the object
"We saw a baby sleeping"
- The word "sleeping" is relevant to the object. We didn't see a baby while we were sleeping right? lol
"I heard a car driving on the road"
- I didn't hear the car whilst I was driving, I heard the car driving. Also, the car was on the road, not me when I happened to hear it. So this time the verb (as adjective) and preposition is part of the object?
Anyway clarification on this would be much appreciated.
Cheers
Bizt