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List,
I have a few questions about the following sentence:
<Poe's language, however, gradually convinces us that a purely rational explanation will not suffice, however neatly it fits the external facts. >
Would you take <us> as the indirect object? Would you take the <that> clause after it as the direct object? Is this analogous to <He showed us a monkey>? Does <convince> always take a noun clause object when it takes an direct object? In <He convinced us>, is <us> now the direct object, that is, we were the convinced ones, or is there still an implied clausal direct object leaving <us> as an indirect object?
Thanks,
Scott Woods
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