Assertion: verb's object | /r/HasProperty | expressed by prepositional phrase
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Source sentences:
text: The deverbal noun does not take objects, although the understood object may be expressed by a prepositional phrase with of : the crossing of the river cost many lives (an indirect object is expressed using to or for as appropriate: the giving of the award to John ).
text: If there is an indirect object, it precedes the direct object (I gave him the book), although an indirect object can also be expressed with a prepositional phrase following the direct object (and this method is usual when the direct object is a personal pronoun)
text: The deverbal noun does not take objects, although the understood object may be expressed by a prepositional phrase with :