God = S
Answered = V
Our Prayers = DO
<u>Explanation:</u>
Subject is the name of a person, place, or thing. In sentence 'God answered our prayers', God is the subject. Verb on the other hand are the action words which describes an occurrence or an action. So from the given sentence, 'answered' is a verb.
Direct object is the one where the noun phrase receives the action of a verb. To answer the direct object, we usually as the Who or What question. What did God answered? Our prayers! So here, our prayers acts as a direct object.
A few words with the prefix pater/part are:
patriarch - head of the household
paternal - relating to the father
paternity - test to determine child's father.
The answer to the question you presented above would be 'persuasive speech' or 'oral persuasion'. These are the terms that refer to a speaker's use of persuasive language to persuade an audience.
I looked it up and got 2 answers out of three possibilities
a. nonstandard usage
b. conversational speech
c. slang
some people said a while others said c