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Oblique Object

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Afroza Akhter Tina:
An oblique object is a grammatical relation proposed for a noun phrase clause constituent with the following characteristics:
1. Its nature and behavior are more readily describable in semantic terms than syntactic.
2. It is likely to be the most constrained in the semantic roles it may individually express.
3. It is likely to be marked by an adposition or case affix.
4. It is not likely to be a target of syntactic rules, such as agreement with the verb, or strategies of relativization.

Example (English)
    •  English prepositional phrases, as clause constituents, can be considered oblique objects.
 She was bitten by a spider.



Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU

Shampa Iftakhar:
Informative post :) So many  things I have learned from this post  :)

nadimhaider:
thanks

Afroza Akhter Tina:
Thanks for going through the post...  :)




Afroza Akhter Tina
Senior Lecturer
Department of English, DIU

Shahriar Mohammad Kamal:
Nice to know about 'adpositional phrase'.

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