English Language & Usage Asked on April 17, 2021
When diagramming "You heard me sing," would you form a clause as the direct object, with me as the subject of the verb sing (even though me is an objective pronoun)? Or, would you think of sing as an infinitive (to sing) modifying me?
You heard me [sing].
"Hear" is a catenative verb, and "sing" is an infinitival subordinate clause functioning as its catenative complement.
"Me" is the syntactic object of "hear", and the semantic subject of the subordinate clause.
Answered by BillJ on April 17, 2021
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