Je mange une pomme - I’m eating an apple. Je is the subject, the person who is doing the action. Une pomme is the object because it is on the receiving end of the action.

WHEN we were children and just beginning to learn English grammar, many of us were taken aback by the strange failure of some verbs to work in certain sentence constructions.For instance, perhaps ...

The Journal of Comparative Germanic Linguistics, Vol. 8, No. 1/2, Selected papers from the 17th Comparative Germanic Syntax Workshop (CGSW17), University of Iceland, Reykjavík, August 2002 (2005), pp.