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An objectective phrase uses an infinitive verb and a pronoun, e.g.:
Take the phrase:
That is done properly.
Here are objective phrases:
That is done the way I want it.
or
That is done his way.
An object in grammar is a sentence element and part of the sentence predicate. It denotes somebody or something involved in the subject's "performance" of the verb. As an example, the following sentence is given:
In the sentence "Bobby kicked the ball", "ball" is the object.
"Bobby" is the subject, the doer or performer, while "kick" is the action, and "ball" is the object involved in the action.
The main verb in the sentence determines whether there can or must be objects in the sentence, and if so how many and of what type. (See also Valency (linguistics).) In many languages, however, including English, the same verb can allow multiple different structures; for example, "Bobby kicked", "Bobby kicked the ball", and "Bobby kicked me the ball" are all valid English sentences.
Types of object
Objects fall into three classes: direct objects, prepositional objects, and non-prepositional indirect objects. An indirect object is the recipient of the direct object, or an otherwise affected participant in the event. For example, if three sentences are considered:
In "We threw knives", knives is the direct object of the verb threw.
In "We listened to the radio", the radio is the object of the preposition to, and the prepositional object of the verb listened.
In "They sent him a postcard", him is the (non-prepositional) indirect object of the verb sent (which uses a double-object construction).
In many languages, including German, Latin, and Classical Arabic, objects can change form slightly (decline) to indicate what kind of object they are (their case). This does not happen in English (though a few English pronouns do have separate subject and object forms); rather, the type of object is indicated strictly by word order.
Forms of object
An object may take any of a number of forms, all of them nominal in some sense. Common forms include:
A noun or noun phrase, as in "I remembered her advice."
An infinitive or infinitival clause, as in "I remembered to eat."
A gerund or gerund phrase, as in "I remembered being there."
A declarative content clause, as in "I remembered that he was blond."
An interrogative content clause, as in "I remembered why she had left."
A fused relative clause, as in "I remembered what she wanted me to."
The object in linguistics
In inflected languages, objects may be marked using morphological case. In many languages, the patient of a ditransitive verb is marked in the same way as the single object of a monotransitive verb, and is called the direct object. The recipient has its own marking, and is called the indirect object. In Latin and many other languages, the direct object is marked by the accusative case, while the indirect object is typically marked by the dative case.
In more isolating languages such as English, objects are marked by their position in the sentence or using adpositions (like to in I gave a book to him). Modern English preserves a case distinction for pronouns, but it has conflated the accusative and the dative into a single objective form (him, her, me, etc., which may function either as direct or indirect objects).
In some languages, the recipient of a ditransitive verb is marked in the same way as the single object of a monotransitive verb, and is called the primary object. The patient of ditransitive verbs has its own marking, and is called the secondary object. Such languages are called dechticaetiative languages, and are mostly found among African languages.
An object can be turned into a syntactic subject using passive voice, if the language in question has such a construction. In dative languages, the direct object is promoted, while in dechticaetiative languages the primary object is promoted. English shares this property with dechticaetiative languages, since non-prepositional indirect objects can be promoted:
His colleagues sent him a postcard.
He was sent a postcard.
In the immense majority of languages, where there is a preferred word order in the sentence, the object is placed somewhere after the subject. Analytic languages additionally tend to place the object after the verb, so that it remains separate from the subject
An objective pronoun in grammar functions as the target of a verb, as distinguished from a subjective pronoun, which is the initiator of a verb. Objective pronouns are instances of the oblique case.
In the English language, many objective pronouns are different from their corresponding subjective pronouns — as an example, the following comparisons can be drawn: the word "I" can be compared to "me", "we" compared to "us", "he" compared to "him", "she" to "her", "who" to "whom", and "they" to "them".
English once had an extensive declension system that specified distinct pronouns for accusative and dative cases. This collapsed into a single pronoun for both accusative and dative cases, now called the objective pronoun. Thus, many requirements for declension in English concerning the objective and subjective pronouns have since mostly regressed.
[edit] Regional differences
Several relatively common usages of objective pronouns in the subject position are regarded as errors by prescriptivists, though descriptive grammarians and linguists class such usages as dialect and a natural part of language evolution. Various dialects of English often disregard subjective/objective pronoun distinctions in certain cases.
For example, to use the objective pronoun in a compound subject is traditionally considered grammatically incorrect by prescriptivists.
Incorrect: You and me are going to school together.
Correct: You and I are going to school together.
Incorrect: The teacher teaches you and I.
Correct: The teacher teaches you and me.
Also, using the objective pronoun for the second word in a comparison using the conjunction than is traditionally considered incorrect if a subjective pronoun would be necessary in the "full" form of the sentence. This rule is very often disregarded in many varieties of English, to the point where a sentence constructed using "proper" grammar can, in some cases, be perceived as artificial or archaic to a native speaker.
Incorrect: You are a better swimmer than her. (Than is used here as a preposition, as such it assigns objective case to its argument, 'her'.)
Correct: You are a better swimmer than she. (You are a better swimmer than she [is]. Prescriptivist English uses 'than' only as a conjunction.)
Correct: They like you more than her. (They like you more than [they like] her.)
Following a copula (linking verb) with an objective pronoun is traditionally considered incorrect, following the logic that, as the subject and the object are the same, they should share the same case. Again, to some ears the first "correct" sentence below sounds artificial and awkward.
Incorrect: The winner was me.
Correct: The winner was I.
Correct: I was the winner.
Finally, the word whom, technically the objective form of who, is falling into disuse in some areas. Who is commonly being used for both the objective and nominative cases, similar to the word you.
Incorrect: Who should I tell?
Correct: Whom should I tell?
Correct: Who should hear that?
It should be restated that labelling these differences "correct" and "incorrect" is a prescriptive response to dialectical differences from standard written English.
(there is no phrase with that name dude!)
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