See anything wrong with that sentence? Most people probably don’t, but there is a problem with it and, for me, the problem is eye-opening. Here’s the issue: If you want to be as proper and correct as ...

A recent headline from the Los Angeles Times, “Teens plotting attacks tend to tip their hand,” highlights a particularly difficult grammar problem. Do plural teens really share a singular hand? No.

An object is a noun, noun phrase or pronoun that is governed by a verb or apreposition, which means it comes straight after the verb and shows what the verbis acting upon. Don’t worry, it’s simpler ...

The manifest world comprises perceptions of the body, emotions of the mind and thoughts of the intellect. The world is the object of experience while the Self within, the unmanifest subject of ...

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 9, No. 4, First Language Acquisition of East Asian Languages (Oct., 2000), pp. 325-351 (27 pages) This paper discusses the subject/object drop pattern found in ...

Indirect object pronouns close indirect object pronoun An indirect object pronoun replaces a noun that is the indirect object in a sentence, eg ‘I give an apple to the man’ becomes ‘I give him an ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract For a long time Japanese was taken to be a language lacking a subject-object asymmetry in subextraction. Two recent experimental studies have ...