[Grammar] Verb preposition and object

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Respected Teachers
Please help me understand it. " I went to my friend" . Here, 'went' is a verb, 'to' is a preposition , what is 'my friend'? It can not be Adverb because it is not answering HOW/ WHERE /WHEN. It can not be an object since GO is an intransitive verb. Kindly help

 

[emsr2d2]

[STRIKE]Respected Teachers[/STRIKE] Unnecessarily formal and incorrectly capitalised

Hello.

Please help me understand [STRIKE]it.[/STRIKE] "I went to my friend". Here, 'went' is a verb, 'to' is a preposition; what is 'my friend'? It cannot be an adverb because it is not answering How/Where/When. It cannot be an object since [STRIKE]GO[/STRIKE] 'go' is an intransitive verb.

[STRIKE]Kindly[/STRIKE] Please help me.

Welcome to the forum. :hi:

Please see my corrections above.

There is one major problem with your post/question and that is that "I went to my friend" is an unlikely sentence. What do you think it means?

 

[jutfrank]

my friend is a noun phrase.