I can think of lots of nominal prepositional phrases although some are a bit forced.<br><br>Subject: <i>Behind the table</i> is where I looked.<br>Subject Complement: The best part of my day is <i>after lunch</i>.<br>Direct Object: Don&#39;t nose about <i>in my business</i>.<br>

Object Complement: I bought the best gift <i>at the party. </i>(could be adjectival depending on analysis)<br>Indirect Object: You might want to give <i>inside the car</i> a good cleaning as well.<br><br>Your analysis seems valid to me, Scott.<br>

<br>John<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 1:14 PM, Scott Woods <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[log in to unmask]"><a href="/SCRIPTS/WA.EXE?LOGON=A3%3Dind1009%26L%3DATEG%26E%3Dquoted-printable%26P%3D216337%26B%3D--0015175ca866eac4ee048f5f4f3e%26T%3Dtext%252Fhtml%3B%2520charset%3DISO-8859-1%26pending%3D" target="_parent" >[log in to unmask]</a></a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">

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<div>Does it make sense that a prepositional phrase can be used nominally?  If it makes sense to substitute &quot;that,&quot; &quot;this,&quot; &quot;it,&quot; or some other pronoun for the prepositional phrase, could it make sense to call a prepositional phrase a direct object?</div>


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<div>For instance: in &lt;he told his friends of the peculiar weather&gt;, does it make sense to call &quot;friends&quot; the indirect object and &quot;of the peculiar weather&quot; the direct object?  In &lt;he told his friends the truth&gt; would &quot;friends&quot; be the indirect object and &quot;truth&quot; the direct object?  In &lt;he told his friends&gt; is &quot;friends&quot; a direct object, or an indirect object with an implied direct object? In &lt;he told the truth&gt; is there an implied indirect object, those who were told? In &lt;he told the truth to his friends&gt; is &quot;truth&quot; the direct object and &quot;friends&quot; the indirect object in a prepositional phrase? In &lt;he told his friends about the truth&gt; is &quot;friends&quot; the indirect object and &quot;about the truth&quot; the direct object? In &lt;he told his friends that the truth can be found&gt; is &quot;that the truth can be found&quot; a clausal direct object?  How else could these be analyzed?</div>


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<div>Thanks for your help,</div>
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<div>Scott Woods</div></div><br>

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