"preguntar" is a transitive verb
"preguntar" is a transitive verb, which means it can take a direct object. (no preposition ). But, in the sentence " La alumna pregunta al profesor" , I wonder why there is a preposition "a" before the object "el profesor"?
Hope I made myself understood! :P" La alumna pregunta al profesor..." I think it's just a part of the sentence
my question can also apply to "¿Cómo hacer preguntas al profesor?"oops! made a mistake, my question can't apply to "¿Cómo hacer preguntas al profesor?"
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"Preguntar" is a transitive verb.
In "La alumna pregunta al profesor", "al profesor" is the direct object.
When the direct object is animate, there is an "a" before.
Pregunto una duda (without "a"). Pregunto al profesor (with "a")
In "pregunto una duda al profesor", some linguists say that there are two direct objects in the same sentence.
In "¿Cómo hacer preguntas al profesor?", "preguntas" is the direct object, and "al profesor" is the indirect object.
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Some linguists are drunks ;-)
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"Al profesor" is indirect object. The direct object (in this case, "what" are you asking for), can be eliptic (implicit). La alumna pregunta (algo, something, direct object) al profesor (indirect.)
In "preguntó una duda al profesor", "una duda" is the direct object, and "profesor" is indirect object.
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your grammar is frail. Since when "el profesor" is the object? What do you ask, a question or a professor?
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