A few days ago
“Molly is spelling words.” What are the parts of speech in this sentence?
“Molly is spelling words.”
I would naturally assume that Molly is the subject. It seems as though “is spelling” represents an affirmative present progressive verb. Would I then say that “words” is the direct object of the sentence?
I can’t figure out if present progressive verbs take a direct object.
Or is this completely wrong?
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A few days ago
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Present progressive is a tense. If a verb normally takes an object in other tenses, it also takes it in present progressive.
Molly (subject-noun) is (auxiliary-verb) spelling (present participle) words (noun-object).
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A few days ago
Molly is spelling words.
Subject – Molly
Verb – spelling
Helping verb – is
Direct object – words
Hope this helps! 😉
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A few days ago
Monk is correct!!! But as Bill Clinton, our dude, would say, “it depends on what IS IS.”
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