Sometimes you can guess the meaning of a phrasal verb because it is related to the main verb. Look at this example again. Shall we give away all the old books in the office? The meaning is clearly ...

A direct object takes or receives the action of the verb. In other words, the subject of the sentence acts on the direct object. The direct object in our sample sentence “Matt eats pizza” is pizza.

Nouns are by far the largest category of words in English. They signify all kinds of physical things both living and inanimate. They also signify imagined things like ‘a ghost’; and ideas or ...