An object is a noun, noun phrase or pronoun that is governed by a verb or apreposition, which means it comes straight after the verb and shows what the verbis acting upon. Don’t worry, it’s simpler ...

When a sentence uses a transitive verb to describe an action, it’s necessary for the subject to take a direct object and to act on it: “The woman spurned her suitor last week.” “Her suitor found a ...

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions. For instance, perhaps ...