Like the subject, the object is usually a noun (‘the piano’) or a noun phrase, (‘the big, black grand piano’). Verbs that take objects describe some kind of action rather than a state of being.

Languages differ as to whether they are accusative or ergative. In other words, grammatical rules in some languages are sensitive to the distinction between Subjects and Objects; in others, to the ...

Journal of East Asian Linguistics, Vol. 9, No. 4, First Language Acquisition of East Asian Languages (Oct., 2000), pp. 325-351 (27 pages) This paper discusses the subject/object drop pattern found in ...

Some people love it when you correct their grammar. Those people are easy to identify. They’re the folks who say, “Yes, please correct my grammar. I love that.” Pretty much everyone else alive — or ...