So, my friend comes to me today and asks me with help on a question about 4 sentences which he needs to identify the Subject, Verb, Indirect Object, Direct Object, and complement in, and then also identify which of the 5 English sentence patterns each of them fall into.
It should be noted that he gave these sentences in English to me. I'm not sure if he received the instructions in English, or if he just wanted to translate it instead of giving me the Japanese instructions, but I will provide the instructions he gave me.
Instructions
Point out the subject, verb, indirect object, direct object, and complement in the following sentences and determine which of the five sentence types they fall into.
- The metal at the ends melts and fuses together.
- Resistance welding uses the heat generated by an electric current.
- Forge welding is another method of joining metals.
- This type of welding is called spot welding.
Now, the answers I got from about 30 minutes of looking at this are:
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SVADV
Subject – The Metal
Verb – melts and fuses
Indirect Object – （なし）
Direct Object – the ends
Complement – together -
SVN
Subject – Resistance Welding
Verb – uses
Indirect Object – electric current
Direct Object – the heat
Complement – generated -
SVO
Subject – Forge welding
Verb – joining
Indrect Object – method
Direct Object – metals
Complement – another -
SVO
Subject – This type
Verb – called
Indirect Object – welding
Direct Object – spot welding
Complement – （なし）
Now, because I have an idea of how these questions work, I'm fairly sure I'm missing something. In the first sentence, I was stuck for quite some time because I couldn't find an indrect object (unless I wanted to reuse the subject). In the end, I just put (None), but I have a feeling this is incorrect because despite the fact that not all sentences require an indirect object, it probably has it and I'm not seeing it.
About the same story for sentence 4. I couldn't find the complement (unless I wanted to reuse the verb).
Am I missing something?
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