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Prepositional Phrase or Direct Object?
I was waiting for the bus.
What is "for the bus"?
A sentence has to have a direct object right? But isn't this a prepositional phrase?
1 Answer
- ?Lv 66 years agoFavorite Answer
No, a sentence doesn't have to have a direct object. Only transitive verbs have to have a direct object. "To wait" is an intransitive verb -- that's another way of saying "it doesn't have to have a direct object."
So yes, "for the bus" is a prepositional phrase. The whole phrase acts as an adverb, modifying the verb "was waiting."
In the sentence "I missed the bus," then "the bus" is the direct object of the transitive verb "missed." But with intransitive verbs, there is no direct object.
