ENGL 375 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Linking Verb, Ditransitive Verb, Preposition And Postposition

• School: Chico State University
• Department: English
• Course: ENGL 375
• Professor: Sara Trechter

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Sprinted to their locker room is the predicate. Transitive follows the verb with a noun phrase; intransitive does not. The drug scene is a noun phrase and so it is transitive. The city council in my home town bought the police department suvs. The verb is an action verb and there are two objects that follow the verb. The police department is the indirect object and suvs is the direct object. There are two objects and so it is transitive. Rachel maddow found oprah (to be) an interesting guest. Oprah and interesting guest are an example of object and complement. The reason the ever is dropped from the subject is because you change it to statement form. You would take an english class in spain.