Nahuel
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- Oct 7, 2011
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I have this one doubt that's been bothering me for a while since I started analysing sentences: Is the prepositional object of the preposition of a phrasal verb the object of the same phrasal verb? Take, for instance, "to put off the meeting" where "put off" is the phrasal verb and "the meeting" is the object of the preposition "off" of the phrasal verb. When it comes to underline clause constituents like subject, direct object, adjunct, disjunct, etc. what do I underline as the verb? Is the prepositional phrase included within the pharsal verb? Or should I underline the prepositional object as a direct object since there is no prepositional object as a clause constituent? I mean, since the prepositional object complements the phrasal verb I think it's correct if I mark it all as phrasal verb.
What about the phrasal verb "drag into" as in "Do not drag me into this discussion!" where "me" is the direct object of the pharsal verb and "this discussion is object to the preposition "into"? Does this pharsal verb have two direct objects? Or is "me" and indirect object?
What about the phrasal verb "drag into" as in "Do not drag me into this discussion!" where "me" is the direct object of the pharsal verb and "this discussion is object to the preposition "into"? Does this pharsal verb have two direct objects? Or is "me" and indirect object?