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She asked (me) a difficult question.

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    It's a noun phrase acting as the direct object of the transitive verb asked. The verb asked here is amenable to "Dative Alternation", and so you could write your sentence in this way also: She asked a difficult question of me, though the former version is prefered. – user405662 Mar 29 '21 at 10:26
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    Does this answer your question? verbs with two direct objects? ({not two direct objects] ... The addressee is the indirect object, and the question is the direct object. ... It's a standard bitransitive communication verb, like say, tell, shout, inquire, etc. – J Lawler) – Edwin Ashworth Mar 29 '21 at 11:39
  • I agree with you and said many times on Facebook group this is ( noun phrase) object of the verb ask, but Iraqi students always are not satisfied thinking as a phrase begins with an adjective it should be (( adjective phrase )). This is not correct I know that the ( Head ) is a noun ( question ). Adjective phrases are formed as : Adv + adj examples : very good , extremely difficult OR prepositional phrases act adjective – Ahmad Mohammad Mar 29 '21 at 13:40

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