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The object of "for" is the whole of the following clause, and not just the relative pronoun, and that clause should follow the proper rules of subject-verb-object grammar.
The 3rd-graders at P.S. 277 in Brooklyn twisted upward in their seats, hands fluttering on outstretched arms like flags atop a pole. As teacher Janet Kennedy recognized them, they marched in turn t… ...
Whom is an object. It replaces him or her. We're supposed to say, "Whom do you love" because the answer is "I love him, or her." We do not say, "I love he or she." I don't mean to sound pedantic ...
The glamour of grammar: an object lesson Self-taught teacher Nevile Gwynne's grammar primer has garnered a cult following, and is about to go mainstream with a new, expanded version. Elizabeth ...
One of the biggest challenges for speakers of non-gendered languages such as English is figuring out how to get their heads around the French language concepts of masculine and feminine. But ...
Learn and revise sentence types and clauses, nouns, adjectives and verbs with this BBC Bitesize CCEA GCSE English Language study guide.
AGAINST THE NEW SYSTEM; TEACHERS OBJECT TO BOARD OF EDUCATION MANUAL. Elijah D. Clark of the Teachers' and Miss Montfort of the Grammar Principals' Association Give Their Reasons for Such Opposition.
My classes were typically older kids or adult-education courses, so I wanted to assume that the basic rules of subject-object grammar (and maybe even diagramming sentences) had been wrapped up ...