I asked my students to try to come up with sentences in which "think"  
is used as a transitive verb.  Did they ever.

After "I think evil thoughts" and "I think it will rain," both of  
which seem to qualify, they came up with several that are puzzling me:

I think too much.

Martha Kolln says "much" can be an indefinite pronoun, so perhaps it  
is a direct object, but what about "too"?  Can a qualifier like "too"  
modify an indefinite pronoun?  Martha says qualifiers (some call 'em  
intensifiers) can modify adjectives and adverbs.  So is "much" an  
adverb?  Of manner?  Help?

And what about this one:

I think about many things.

Martha suggests a prepositional phrase can function as a subject  
complement, as in "the fighter seems out of shape," but can it also  
function as a direct object?

Aren't students wonderful?  I told them I would post these to the  
list and report back with your responses.

Peter Adams

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