Editing Object (grammar) (section)

==Syntactic category==
While the typical object is a pronoun, noun, or noun phrase, objects can also appear as other [[syntactic category|syntactic categories]], as illustrated in the following table for the [[English language]]:

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! Category !!  Example 
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| Noun (phrase) or pronoun || The girl ate '''fruit'''.
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| ''that''-clause || We remembered '''that we had to bring something'''. 
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| Bare clause || We remembered '''we had to bring something'''.
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| ''for''-clause || We were waiting '''for him to explain'''.  
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| Interrogative clause || They asked '''what had happened'''. 
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| Free relative clause || I heard '''what you heard'''.
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| Gerund (phrase or clause) || He stopped '''asking questions'''. 
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| ''to''-infinitive || Sam attempted '''to leave'''.
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| [[Cataphor]]ic ''it'' || I believe '''it''' that she said that. 
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| Prepositional phrase || The student submitted his homework '''to the teacher'''.
|}