ABSTRACT
Any primary (see Chap. VIII) may be the subject of a sentence. On gerunds, infinitives and clauses as subjects, see Chap. XXXI ff. 10.12. Very often a sentence contains more than one primary connected with the same
verb, but only one is the subject. In
Charles took a ticket
we call Charles the Subject, and a ticket the Object of took. In the sentence
Charles gave his daughter a ticket
we have even two objects; the ticket is the direct and his daughter the indirect object. In “Charles saw his daughter and her husband” there is only one grammatical object
(though denoting two persons; cp. “saw them”); in “Charles gave his daughter and her husband their tickets and a few pounds” there are two grammatical objects, each consisting of two parts joined by means of and.
