Subject and predicate and Object........(continuation)
In an English sentence OBJECT has a special meaning. More than 50% of this language is written in the passive voice. So it is very important to learn how to write grammatically correct sentences in the passive voice. For this very purpose we need to identify the object of a verb. The question is how we can find out the object. The predicate portion of the sentence may contain many words but there may not be any 'object' in that mix of words .
1. Birds fly in the blue sky in gay abandon.
2 Everyday we go to school on foot with our friends at 10 in the morning.
In the above mentioned sentences there are no objects. So we cannot write them in the passive voice.
How do we know that there is an object or there are objects in a particular sentence? The answer is very simple. Ask the verb two questions with WHAT and/or WHOM. If we find an answer we will get the OBJECT. Let us take the following examples.
3.Gargi teaches her son.
4. Shramana has written a beautiful poem.
In sentence number 3 ask a question= whom does Gargi teach? The answer is her son. So the ' verb teaches' has an object. We can write the sentence in the passive voice. Her son is taught by Gargi.
In question number 4 we can ask a question = What has Shramona written? The answer we get is-- a beautiful poem. This is the object to the verb has written.
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