Like the subject, the object is usually a noun (‘the piano’) or a noun phrase, (‘the big, black piano’). Verbs that take objects describe some kind of action rather than a state of being.

Like the subject, the object is usually a noun (‘the piano’) or a noun phrase, (‘the big, black grand piano’). Verbs that take objects describe some kind of action rather than a state of being.

Sometime back, a Russia-based Forum member requested a tutorial of sorts on how the three kinds of grammatical objects work in English.

Language Acquisition, Vol. 2, No. 3 (1992), pp. 221-254 (34 pages) Because young English-speaking children use null subjects systematically, it has been proposed that they begin with an initial ...