Oblique Object

Linguistics 222

The oblique object is a complement of a preposition The oblique object (NP) is directly dominated by PP:

Here, class is the oblique object of to. The oblique object is a complement of the preposition and hence it functions as an argumentsof the verb.

Note that there are two complements in the following verb phrase configuration:

    1.    walk to class.

the NP class is a complement (an oblique object) of the preposition to, and the PP to class is a complement of the verbwalk:

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