Many predicate attributes have, besides the main word, another very important part called the Object. In order to understand this element it is necessary to notice an important difference between actions.

Exercise 30. Development

Perform the act of tearing. What did you have to do before you could perform this act? (We will suppose that you found a piece of paper).

Make a declarative sentence, telling what happened after you got the paper. Make yourself the subject of thought.

Tell in another way what happened, making the paper the subject of thought.

Perform the act of breaking. What did you have to do first? Assert this act, making yourself the subject of thought. Express the same fact, making the chalk, or whatever you broke, the subject of thought.

Assert the act of writing of yourself. Express the same fact, making the letter, or whatever you wrote, the subject of thought.

How have you found the acts of tearing, breaking, and writing alike?

Now perform the act of going. Assert the act of yourself. Can you express the same fact, making anything but yourself the subject of thought?

Perform the act of standing. Is it like the acts of tearing, breaking, and writing, or like the act of going?

Perform the acts of laughing and sighing. Are they like standing and going or like the other acts?