The Object
The complexity of the object as a sentence member makes difficult to work out an adequate approach to describing this phenomenon. Different classifications of objects have been proposed both by Russian and foreign scholars. The most
common ones are as follows:
1. Objects are divided into direct, indirect and prepositional.
This classification is far from perfect since the principle it is based on is not consistent. Direct and indirect objects are singled out on the basis of the contents while prepositional objects are differentiated based on the formal feature (presence
of preposition). Besides, indirect and prepositional objects can overlap. 89
2. Objects are grouped into prepositional and non-prepositional.
The drawback of this classification is that the underlying principle is not specific uniquely to objects.
3. Prof. Pocheptsov singles out the following types of objects:
- Object object (дополнение объекта) is a sentence member dependent on the verb, adjective or a word of the category of state that denotes an object of action or of quality. It can be prepositional or non-prepositional.
- Addressee object (дополнение адресата) denotes a person or an object to which some action performed by the subject (if the verb is in the Active Voice) is directed. prepositional: I sent a letter to her. non-prepositional: I sent her a letter.
- Subject object (дополнение субъекта) is used with a verb in Passive and denotes the doer of the action expressed by the verb.
