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tactics
the art of arranging military forces for battle
methods
Tactics is one of the subjects studied in military academies.
Your tactics are obvious. Please, don’t insult my intelligence.
politics
a profession
political affairs, political ideas
Politics is a risky profession.
Politics have always interested me.
What are your politics?
ceramics
the art of making bricks, pots, etc.
articles produced in this way
Ceramics is my hobby.
Where he lives isn’t the provinces as far as ceramics are concerned, it’s the metropolis.
7. Subjects expressed by substantivized adjectives denoting groups of people (the blind, the dumb and deaf,
the eminent, the mute, the old, the poor, the rich, etc.) always take the plural verb-predicate.
He did not look an important personage, but the emminent rarely do.
The object
§ 67. The object is a secondary part of the sentence referring to some other part of the sentence and
expressed by a verb, an adjective, a stative or, very seldom, an adverb completing, specifying, or restricting its
meaning.
She has bought a car.
I’m glad to see you.
She was afraid of the dog.
He did it unexpectedly to himself.
Ways of expressing the object
§ 68. The object can be expressed by:
1. A noun in the common case or a nominal phrase, a substantivized adjective or participle.
I saw the boys two hours ago.
The nurses were clad in grey.
First of all she attended to the wounded.
Greedily he snatched the bread and butter from the plate.
2. A noun-pronoun. Personal pronouns are in the objective case, other pronouns are in the common case, or
in the only form they have.
I don’t know anybody here.
I could not find my own car, but I saw hers round the corner.
He says he did not know that.
3. A numeral or a phrase with a numeral.