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He wrote the article two weeks ago.
Tommie did not know anything about it.
Ned ordered him to start.
Some English verbs which take a direct object correspond to Russian verbs followed by an indirect non-
recipient object with a preposition. These verbs are:
to address smb
to affect smb, smth
to answer smth
to approach smb, smth
to attend smth
to enjoy smth
to enter smth
to follow smb, smth
to join smb, smth
to mount smth
to need smth, smb
to play smth
to reach smth
to watch smb, smth
- обращаться к кому-либо
- влиять на кого-либо, что-либо
- отвечать на что-либо
- подойти, приблизиться к кому-либо, чему-либо
- присутствовать на чем-либо
- получать удовольствие от чего-либо
- входить во что-либо
- следовать за кем-либо, чем-либо
- присоединяться к кому-либо, чему-либо
- сесть верхом, взобраться на что-либо
- нуждаться в чем-либо, ком-либо
- играть на чем-либо, во что-либо
- дойти, достать до чего-либо
- следить за кем-либо, чем-либо
The position of the direct object
§ 71. The most usual position of the direct object is that immediately after the predicate verb it refers to.
Then he found her in the hall.
The direct object is separated from the predicate verb in the following cases:
1. If there is a non-prepositional indirect recipient object to the same verb in the sentence. In this case the
direct object follows the indirect one.
I never told him anything.
Note:
The direct object may come before the non-prepositional indirect object if it is the pronoun it, and the
indirect object is any other personal pronoun.
I never told it him.
Give it me, will you?
2. If the direct object is modified by a phrase or a clause. In this case it may be separated from the verb by a
prepositional indirect non-recipient object or an adverbial.
Ged had kept for his winter journey the cloak lined with fur.
He took into his hands a small beast.
3. If the direct object is expressed by a noun or a pronoun (except a personal pronoun) referring to a phrasal
predicate verb consisting of a verbal part and a postposition such as about, back, down, in, off, on, out, over,
through, up.
He laid down his stick.
Ged took off his cloak that was heavy with water.