First, what is a preposition? Before we dig into objects, let’s quickly go over what a preposition is. A preposition is a word that comes before a noun, noun phrase, or pronoun. Prepositions are used ...

Gerunds, essential parts of the English language, look like verbs but are actually nouns. You’ve likely encountered them in writing without identifying them, because they straddle the division between ...

The oblique object is a complement of a preposition The oblique object (NP) is directly dominated by PP: ...