The Characteristics of Direct Object, Indirect Object And Adjunct

CHAPTER I

INTRODUCTION

1.1. Background Of Study

          One important aspect of teaching English syntax (to native and non native undergraduate students alike) involves the balance in the overall approach between facts and theory. We understand that one important goal of teaching English syntax to undergraduate students is to help students enhance their understanding of the structure of English in a systematic and scientific way. Basic knowledge of this kind is essential for students to move on the next stages, in which they will be able to perform linguistic analyses for simple as well as complex English phenomena. This new introductory textbook has been developed with this goal in mind. The book focuses primarily on the descriptive facts of English syntax, presented in a way that encourages students to develop keen insights into the English data. It then proceeds with the basic, theoretical concepts of generative grammar from which students can develop abilities to think, reason, and analyze English sentences from linguistic points of view.

In a sentence, the subject and verb may be followed by an object. An object is a noun or pronoun that gives meaning to the subject and verb of the sentence. Not all sentences contain objects, but some may contain one or more. There are two kinds of objects within a sentence: direct and indirect objects. A direct object is a noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb. Sometimes a direct object is followed by an indirect object. An indirect object is the noun or pronoun for which the action is done.

1.2. The Purpose Of Study

Within this book, we will learn about the fundamental notions of English grammar. We start with the basic properties of direct object, indirect object and adjunct. These chapters guide students through the basic concepts of syntactic analysis such as the realizations of direct object, indirect object and adjunct.

CHAPTER II

DISCUSSION

2.1.            Direct Object

We now turn to a fourth type of grammatical function: the Direct Object (DO). Consider the following sentences:

1)       His girlfriend bought this computer.

2)      That silly fool broke the teapot.

3)      Our linguistics lecturer took this photograph.

4)      My sister found this book.

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CHAPTER III

CONCLUSION

To end this chapter, the table  summarises the main form–function relationships. The central concern of this chapter has been to demonstrate the fact that there exists no one-to-one relationship between function and form in language, and this is why the two notions need to be kept apart.All grammatical functions can be performed by different form classes, and all form classes can perform a variety of grammatical functions, as the table below shows.

Form                Direct Object                         Indirect Object            Adjunct

Noun Phrase                        ü                                     ü                         ü

Prepositional Phrase            ü                                      -                          ü

Adverb Phrase                                 -                                       -                          ü

Finite Clauses

That-clause                        ü                                      -                            -

Wh-clause                         ü                                     ü                          ü

Clauses introduced by 

because, when, etc.           -                                        -                           ü

Nonfinite Clauses

to-infinitive clause           ü                                       -                           ü

bare infinitive clause        ü                                       -                           ü

-ing participle clause        ü                                       -                           ü

-ed participle clause         ü                                       -                           ü

Small Clause                     ü                                      -                           ü

REFERENCES

Miller, Jim. 2002. An Introduction to English Syntax. Edinburg: Edinber

 University Press Ltd.

Aarts, Bas. 1997. English Syntax and Argumentation. London: Machmillan Press

Ltd.



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