英语单词短语词组“grammar/british-grammar/objects”的中文翻译、释义及用法解析-英汉词典

An object is one of the five major elements of clause structure. The other four are subject, verb, adjunct and complement.

Objects are typically noun phrases (a noun or pronoun and any dependent words before or after it). Objects normally follow the verb in a clause:

Everyone likesher. She knowseveryone.

They didn’t taketheir mountain bikeswith them.

A:
Have you seenthe car keys?
B:
Yes I hadthemearlier.

There are direct objects and indirect objects. A direct object (in bold) is the thing or person that is affected by the action of the verb. An indirect object (underlined) is usually a person (or animal) who receives a direct object:

They gavehera presentwhen she left.

Can you getmesome butter?

A direct object shows who or what the action of the verb affects:

That computer hasn’t gota mouse.

Nobody writeslettersthese days.

Does she playtennis?

An indirect object is usually a person or an animal. The indirect object (underlined) receives or is affected by the direct object (in bold). An indirect object always needs a direct object with it and always comes before the direct object:

She gavethe dogits dinner.

Do I oweyousome money?

We can often rephrase such sentences with a prepositional phrase usingtoorfor+ the recipient. In this case, the direct object usually comes first.

Compare

indirect + direct object	direct object + prepositional phrase withto/for
He always givesthe classtoo much homework.	He always givestoo much homeworkto the class.
I never buyherflowers. She’s allergic to them.	I never buyflowersfor her. She’s allergic to them.

Here are some verbs that often take an indirect object + direct object or a prepositional phrase withto:

bring	lend	owe	show	tell
give	offer	promise	teach	write

Here are some verbs that often take an indirect object + direct object or aprepositional phrase withfor:

buyfindget

makeordersave

Some verbs (often called transitive verbs) need an object to complete their meaning. Some verbs (often called intransitive verbs) do nottake an object. Some verbs need both a direct object and an indirect object. Some verbs can take awh-clause or athat-clause as an object.

Some examples of verbs and objects:

verb + object	We really enjoyedthe evening. Thanks.
verb + no object	Paula smiled and left.
verb + two objects	They gaveuscoffee.
verb +wh-clause	I can’t believewhat he told me.
verb +that-clause	I know (that) you’re telling the truth.

Many phrasal verbs (underlined below) take an object:

We won’tgive outyour email addressto other companies.

They’veputthe price of fuelupagain.

All prepositional verbs (underlined below) take an object after the preposition:

I don’tlisten tothe radiomuch.

Itdepends ontheweather.

We don’t use objects with linking verbs (appear, be, become, look, seem, etc.). We use adjective phrases, noun phrases, adverb phrases or prepositional phrases as subject complements (underlined below), to give more information about the subject:

This is Lucy. She’smy sister-in-law.

Ifeltreally tired.

Iwasin the gardenwhen you rang.

Objects

Direct objects

Indirect objects

Verbs and objects

No objects with linking verbs