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Object (grammar)

In linguistics, an object is any of several types of arguments. In subject-prominent, nominative-accusative languages such as English, a transitive verb typically distinguishes between its subject and any of its objects, which can include but are not limited to direct objects, indirect objects, and arguments of adpositions (prepositions or…

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Object (grammar)

Nodes40
Edges39
Triples8
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.05
Components1

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object languages subject objects english verb grammar direct indirect case word order sentence types transitive syntactic structure arguments following verbs

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Englishinstance ofnominative-accusative languages0.80text
a transitive verb typically distinguishes between its subjectinstance ofnominative-accusative languages0.80text
any of its objectsinstance ofnominative-accusative languages0.80text
which can include but are not limited to direct objectsinstance ofnominative-accusative languages0.80text
indirect objectsinstance ofnominative-accusative languages0.80text
and arguments of adpositionsinstance ofnominative-accusative languages0.80text
Englishinstance ofPassive sentence identifies me as an object in the starting sentence.The second criterion is also a reliable criterion for analytic languages0.80text
since the relatively strict word order of English usually positions the object after the verbinstance ofPassive sentence identifies me as an object in the starting sentence.The second criterion is also a reliable criterion for analytic languages0.80text

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