Sentence examples for object of the verb from inspiring English sources

The object of the verb "avenge" seems to have been shifting recently.

As he likes to say, "I would not want to be the object of the verb 'ignored' when the subject of the sentence is John Sexton".

You eradicate context and qualification and invite rent-a-quote to be subject of the verb "to slam" or object of the verb "to infuriate".

Some Romance languages pick out the object of the verb, if it is a person, by an additional particle: Spanish Pedro llama a Pablo; Romanian Petru cheamă pe Pavel.

Following Huang et al.'s reasoning, 杯子 beizi 'cup' in 38a is not the object of the verb za.

When the object of the verb phrase was being questioned, the question "What did John buy?" was generated.

Fifth position - Contains verb complements, which are verbs that act as the object of the main verb.

In the internal conjunct, AGAIN and ME are silent and the clausal object CP of the verb of saying is elided, leaving the verb of saying alone to denote the speech act of the speakert.

See Figure 5 for an example of a semantic relation 'protein A activates protein B', expressed differently in surface textual form, in which the semantic subject (ARG1) and semantic object (ARG2) of the verb 'activate' is represented in the same way in the semantic representation level (indicated by the dashed arrows).

But these analyses are proposed for constructions such as those in 2, where the post-verbal string initiated by TAc looks like an object of the preceding verb.

Crucially, according to Huang et al.'s analysis in 33, wo in 30 is not the overt subject of the clause after de, but the direct object of the main verb qi.