Re: Ditransitivity (again!)

On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 05:47:45PM -0500, David Barrow wrote:
> not
> explain me this passage
That sounds fine to me, actually.

Also, I wouldn't consider all those examples ditransitive.  This one is:

> Boil me an egg.
Direct object "egg", indirect object "me".  But this one isn't:

> >Boil an egg for me.
Single object (egg) plus an adverbial prepositional phrase.

etc.

-Mark