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prepositional object

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Noun1.prepositional object - the object governed by a preposition
object of a preposition
object - (grammar) a constituent that is acted upon; "the object of the verb"
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The verb say of the reporting clause can be followed by a prepositional object + reported speech; for instance, I said to her, "When I'm ready I'll tell you".
Natural Syntax: English reported speech by Oresnik, Janez / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
With the verbs give, offer, and sell, the pattern indirect object + direct object is about four times more common than the pattern direct object + prepositional object (Biber et al.
Naturalness: some English (morpho)syntactic examples by Oresnik, Janez / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
pied-piping Of the two mechanisms generally available in Present-Day English relative clauses whenever a prepositional object is relativised, preposition-stranding is the only possibility in Old English infinitival relatives, pied-piping not being available until the fourteenth century.
On the non-expressed object of Old English infinitives by Castillo, Concha / Studia Anglica Posnaniensia: international review of English Studies
 
 
 
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