Subject and predicate and object etc........
We have different object in our life. By object we often mean some material things like the mysterious UFO ( Unidentified flying object ). But in grammar an object means a completely different thing. It does not depend on the size or structure of the sentence. It is easy to identify the subject to a verb. It is not so easy to identify the 'object' to the verb. Let us take the following examples.
1. Apratim and Sukanya have returned to Hyderabad this morning.
2. Shraemana wants to be a good doctor in future.
3. Urmi is a very shy and reserved girl.
4. Birds are flying in the blue sky in gay abandon.
The above mentioned sentences are relatively longer sentences but none of the four contain an object.
Then how can we find out if there is an object in a sentence? Of course in the grammatical sense.
Let us try. It is not so difficult though students of lower classes find it a bit hard to find out the object. My suggestion is very simple. Ask the verb two simple questions with What and Whom. If you get a positive answer you will find the object.
Let us look into the following sentences.
1. Birds eat insects.( ask : What do birds eat? You will get the answer=insects )
2. Mamoni has sung a beautiful Rabindrasangit.
3. Adrija was eating delicious jilabis.
4. Samrat will design a new and attractive blog for SPK.
5.My father had promised me a new smart phone.
If you study the above mentioned sentences you will easily find that the first four sentences have one object each and the last sentence contains two objects. Just ask your questions with what and whom
and you will find the object/objects.
Verbs having objects are known as TRANSITIVE VERBS and verbs with no objects are INTRANSITIVE verbs. When we will start writing passive sentences this knowledge will come in very handy. Only the transitive verbs can be written in the passive. There are some exceptions to the rules. We will discuss them at a later stage.**********************************************.
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