Wednesday, March 9, 2011

2. Verb Patterns (II)

(4) Double Object Verbs

Give, bring ကဲ့သုိ႔ေသာ အခ်ိဳ႕verb ေတြမွာ pattern ႏွစ္မ်ိဳးရွိတယ္။

Noun Phrase (Subject)

Verb Phrase

Noun Phrase (Direct Object)

Prepositional Phrase

She

gave

some money

to the old man.

They

brought

a lot of food

for the animals.

N+V+N+P (Noun Phrase+ Verb Phrase + Noun Phrase + Prepositional Phrase

Noun Phrase (Subject)

Verb Phrase

Noun Phrase (Indirect Object)

Noun Phrase (Direct Object)

She

gave

the old man

some money.

They

brought

the animals

a lot of food.

N+V+N+N (Noun Phrase + Verb Phrase + Noun Phrase + Noun Phrase)

ဒီလုိမ်ိဳး object ႏွစ္ခု ပါတဲ့ verb ေတြကုိ double object verb လို႔ေခၚတယ္။

(6) Verbs with –ing forms

အခ်ိဳ႕ transitive verbs ေတြမွာ object အျဖစ္ noun phrase လဲရွိႏုိင္တယ္၊ -ing form လဲရွိႏုိင္တယ္။

Everybody likes good food. (N+V+N)

George considered the problem. (N+V+N)

Everybody likes eating. (N+V+N)

George considered starting again. (N+V+N)

(7) Verbs with to infinitive

အခ်ိဳ႕ verb ေတြမွာ noun + verb + to infinitive patter ရွိတယ္။

They agreed to help.

We decided to go.

N+V+to infinitive

အခ်ိဳ႕ verb ေတြမွာ noun + verb + to infinitive pattern ရွိတယ္။

She told him to go home.

They advised us to wait.

N+V+N+to infinitive

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