Need a little help with english, prepositions please?

Question

I have missed a couple of days at school and I have a work sheet on prepositions. Can there be more than one object in a sentence, example: "The train roared through the tunnel, blasting its horn."? Could the objects be train, tunnel, and horn? Thanks for the help

Answer 1

Why people attempt to answer questions when they do not know what they're are talking about really puzzles me. The people answering your questions, at least responders, 2,3,4,5 are totally incorrect.

Train is the SUBJECT of the verb roared and is in NO way an object!!

Through the tunnel is a prepositional phrase. A prepositional phrase begins with a preposition and ends with a noun or pronoun that is called the OBJECT of the preposition. Thus through is a preposition and tunnel is the object of the preposition.

Blasting its horn is a participial phrase modifying train. Thus there is only one preposition and object of the preposition in that sentence. Through the tunnel.

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

Train, tunnel and horn are all nouns, but only tunnel is the object of the preposition "through". A preposition is a word used to relate its object to the rest of the sentence.

Among nouns (words that name a person, place or thing), the noun that is doing the action is the SUBJECT. The noun receiving the action is the object. It can be the direct object (the subject does the action to the direct object, such as "The cat ate the mouse" --> cat is the subject, mouse is the direct object, the verb or action word is ate.

An object of a preposition is a noun or pronoun that you want to connect to the rest of the sentence, but it is not directly affected by the verb. Prepositions can be words like through, by, for, near, in, and on. The noun that is in the phrase with the preposition is the object of the preposition.

SO: Train is the subject, above; through the tunnel is the prepositional phrase, with through as the preposition and tunnel as the object of the preposition.

Answer 3

the train is the subject. tunnel is an object of the preposition through, and horn is a direct object of the verb blasting. hope this helps!!

Answer 4

I believe what your looking for is 'the object' as opposed to 'an object' Yes trains, tunnels, and horns are all objects, but 'the' object of the sentance is the train. The train is the object because it, is what is roaring, the tunnel is where the train is, and the train has the horn, which it uses.

Answer 5

They are all objects but there are two different kinds! The direct object is the train, the indirect objects are the tunnel and the horn. They are only describing what is going on with the star of the sentence-the train itself! Get it??

Answer 6

I am a little confused about your initial question. Is it prepositions or objects? It looks like you might be referring to prepositional objects. I found a very clear example for you from Wikipedia. Here goes:

Types of object
Objects fall into three classes: a direct object, a prepositional object, and a non-prepositional indirect object. An indirect object is the recipient of the direct object. For example, if three sentences are considered:

In "We threw stones", stones is the direct object of the verb threw.
In "We listened to the radio", the radio is the object of the preposition to, and the prepositional object of the verb listened.
In "They advised him to open a shop", him is the indirect object of the verb advised.

Answer 7

the obects of the preposition is tunnel, object of the train is horn, train is the subject.