By Gary Spina
ISBN-10: 1402207409
ISBN-13: 9781402207402
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You cannot have an indirect object unless you first have a direct object. Dogs and Ponies Pulling the Travois ★ 31 The old scout told the colonel another tall tale. We know the verb is told and the direct object is tall tale. ” “for whom? ” Told the tall tale to whom? Answer: the colonel. Colonel is the indirect object. See how simple this is once you get the order of things? Object of the Preposition Now—about that pesky object of the preposition. The object of the preposition is simply the noun or pronoun that follows the preposition.
All the good guys are gone. ) Here we need a plural verb because we consider the loss in terms of several individual items—ten one dollar bills—and we regard the loss as a comparatively, significantly, costly, consequential matter including more than one component—in fact ten components, ten dollars. All is plural and requires a plural verb when all is all-inclusive of individual things that can be counted, or when it means all of several things. Again, it comes down to the clarity in the mind of the writer.
Congratulations, crittur. ” SILAS POTTER hen Big Jake McLaughlin was a lad new to the mountains, it was Silas Potter who gave him some “words of learning” that stood him in good stead through the years. “You may growl like a bear and have all the tooth and claw to back you up,” Silas Potter said, “but don’t figure a fool to back off. ” W Dogs and Ponies Pulling the Travois ★ 23 The mountains offered a man absolute freedom from laws, taxes, preachers, and the unnatural notion that a man needs to be reined away from the sins of women and whiskey.
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