object of the verb

NOUN
  1. the object that receives the direct action of the verb
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How To Use object of the verb In A Sentence

  • Five personal pronouns take different cases according to whether they are the subject or the object of the verb. Times, Sunday Times
  • In the sentence 'I like ice cream', 'ice cream' is the object of the verb 'like'.
  • The Hebrew Christian scholar, Dr Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, supports this interpretation by pointing out that the word YHWH is preceded by the untranslated accusative particle et, which marks the object of the verb, in this case ‘gotten’.
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  • Five personal pronouns take different cases according to whether they are the subject or the object of the verb. Times, Sunday Times
  • We all know the “John cut himself while shaving” is correct, but stating the rule accurately and completely would require something like this: Given a sentence in which the subject and object of the verb are coreferential, you must substitute for the second of the two from the set of reflexive pronouns which matches the first in person, number, and gender. The Volokh Conspiracy » Against descriptivism and prescriptivism:
  • But if lindwig is an accusative object of the verb flugon, laora refers to the Hebrews: ‘the survivors fled the shield-army of the hostile ones.’
  • In the sentence 'I like ice cream', 'ice cream' is the object of the verb 'like'.
  • In the sentence 'I like ice cream', 'ice cream' is the object of the verb 'like'.
  • In the sentence, _I name HIM_, note that _him_ is the object of the verb _name_. Practical Grammar and Composition
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