transitive verbs
You have the sentence "I love teaching students." as one of the transitive verb examples. You said that "teaching" is a transitive verb. Is it a transitive verb because it is a verbal (gerund) acting as the direct object and "students" would be the object complement for "teaching"; therefore, "teaching" has an object?
Also, in the sentence "I was on the beach.", would "was" just be an intransitive verb, but not an action or linking verb?
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Greg
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In this sentence, "teaching students" is a noun phrase beginning with gerund. It is the object of verb "love".
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answered Sep 19 '12 at 15:32
Z. A. Jazley
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Prepositional phrases can only act as adjectives and adverbs...that's why I wasn't sure about this one. Predicate nominatives are only nouns and pronouns. In the example on this sight it said that teaching was the transitive verb. That's why I was confused. An indirect object always comes before the direct object in a sentence. That's why I was thinking object complement for students.
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answered Sep 18 '12 at 17:39
Greg
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9/18/12 They language of English was hard for me.Becouse the scond language,that why, not easy to learning the meaning. Any way i was trying.It's helper to commnicate with people.Then to speaking also and writing ,order of the sentnce how to useing that my trying whatevery i can,it's my idea.
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answered Sep 18 '12 at 19:09
Temesgen Daka
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