- 2. A verb with auxiliaries:
- The foe shall have been conquered.
- 3. A verb with adverbial extensions:
- Wolsey, after having served his king faithfully, fell into disfavor.
The Object.
When the verb of the predicate is transitive, that member of the sentence which it governs in the objective case is called the object; as,
Cromwell dismissed the Long Parliament.
The object is always a noun, or its equivalent in the objective case, just as the subject is always a noun, or its equivalent in the nominative case; as,
He ordered the guns in position to open fire.
Here the words in italics make up the object, which is sometimes called the compound object, from its being made up of one or more substantives in conjunction with the infinitive mood. Transitive verbs denoting advantage, addition, &c., usually govern, besides the object proper, what is called the indirect of the dative object: He gave the map to me. Here map is the object proper, and to me, the indirect or dative object.
The subject[1] may consist of—
- 1. A noun or pronoun:
- Cæsar was assassinated.
- He was ambitious.
- 2. An adjectival noun:
- The good alone are great.
- 3. The present participles in ing used as noun, equivalent to the Latin gerund:
- Reading maketh a full man.
- 4. An infinitive:
- To forgive is divine.
- ↑ The same remarks apply to the object.
