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1) the parallel use of two forms in plural in order to define
the names of living beings (except people's names). While the
direct object, used to define the names of people, has the form of
the accusative case, common with the form of the genitive case, to
define the names of animals, it is used both in the form common
with the genitive case, and in the form common with the
accusative case: виховую дітей, but доглядаю овець (вівці), кіз
(кози);
2) the usage of the direct object in the form of the genitive
case singular to define the temporary ceasation of the action
directed at the object or sometimes altogether without any special
features: взяв ножа, попросив олівця, одержав листа.
The usage of the direct object in the form of the genitive
case is met at defining inanimate objects in plural: співали
веселих пісень (in parallel with співали пісні).
In English the direct object can be expressed by the noun
only in the common case or the pronoun in the objective case. It is
one of the subtypes of non-prepositional objects.
In English there are a lot of verbs that have either a very
indistinct meaning or a lot of different meanings, which because
of the mentioned fact require the obligatory use of some object.
Such are the verbs take, make, give, hold, know, have, find,
introduce, put on, take off etc. In case when an object is absent
there should be used a formal object expressed by the pronoun it,
for example: I find it strange that he did not come.
The formal object of such a type is also used after the verbs,
formed by the way of conversion from nouns, and that is why they
cannot be perceived without an object in their new function.
Compare: ... we would sleep out on fine nights and hotel it, and
inn it, and pub it ... when it was wet (Jerome K. Jerome).
The direct object always occupies a certain position in the
sentence. If there are no other objects besides it, the direct object
is, as a rule, situated immediately after the verb. The separation of
the direct object from the verb is witnessed when there is an

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