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Objects to adjectives

 

§ 81. There are quite a number of adjectives that can take an object, although not quite in the same way as verbs do. In the sentence these adjectives are mainly used as predicatives. The objects they take are of two kinds:

 

1. Direct objects expressed only by infinitives or infinitive phrases. No noun or pronoun is ever possible in this position.

 

Mack was very glad to get home.

Mary was happy to have met us.

 

II. Indirect non-recipient objects governed by various prepositions. These objects are usually expressed by a noun or pronoun, sometimes by a gerund, a gerundial phrase or complex, or by a clause, depending on the combinability of the adjective.

 

Now she was ready for anything.

I was surprised at her being so shy.

She was only half conscious of what was going on.

 

As can beseen from the above examples, structurally objects to adjectives may be of the same types as objects to verbs, that is, simple, phrasal, complex, or clausal.

 


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