prepositional object in English
noun
1
a noun phrase governed by a preposition.
Some prepositional objects are also placed in subject position: ‘The woman looked after the old man’ becomes ‘The old man was looked after by the woman’; ‘No one has slept in the bed’ becomes ‘The bed's not been slept in’.
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1. Its a language habit of the ancients to omit prepositional object.
2. The semantic orientation of complement is complicated, it can direct predicate verbs, and also can direct subject, object and prepositional object of the sentence.