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FINDING COMPLEMENTS
•First find the verb and label it action or linking.
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VERBS THAT MAY BE LINKING
• Be verbs: am, is, are, was, were, be, being, been
• Five senses: look, taste, smell, sound, feel
• BRATSS GROW: become, remain, appear, turn, stay, seem, grow
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WAYS TO TELL IF THESE ARE ACTION OR LINKING
• Does the main word after the verb describe or rename the subject?
• Can you substitute a form of the verb seem or be (was, were) for the verb?
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ACTION OR LINKING
• Jennifer tasted the salty pie. 1. Does pie rename or describe Jennifer?
2. Can you substitute seemed or was for tasted?
• If you can’t do both of these, it is action.
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ACTION OR LINKING• The newly baked pie tasted salty.
1. Does salty describe pie?2. Can you substitute seemed
or was for tasted? • If the answer is yes, it is linking.• This material feels rough.• Sandy felt the material of her
dress..
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SUBJECT COMPLEMENTS• Find the verb. Label action or
linking.
• The main word after the linking verb that answers who or what will be a predicate nominative or predicate adjective.
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PREDICATE NOMINATIVE–Predicate nominative renames the
subject and answers who/what after a linking verb.
– It is a noun or a pronoun.
–Example. Mrs. Mercer is my English teacher. (Teacher is the main word answering what after the linking verb).
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Predicate Adjectives• Predicate adjectives still answer
what after the linking verb.
• They describe the subject.
• They are always adjectives.
• The track star appeared tired after the thirty-mile relay. (Tired describes the subject and answers what after the linking verb.
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• Why isn’t salty a predicate adjective in the following sentence?
• The freshly baked dessert was actually a salty pie.
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DIRECT OBJECTS• Direct object answers whom or what
after an action verb.
• … Jeff bought a pencil at the school store. (Bought what? Pencil. Pencil is the direct object.
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INDIRECT OBJECTS
• Indirect objects answer the questions for whom/what or to whom/what.
• They ALWAYS come between the action verb and the direct object.
• They NEVER come after a preposition.
• You cannot have an indirect object without a direct object.
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• Jeff gave Mary a headache with all of his questions. Gave what? Headache. Headache is your direct object. To whom? Mary. Mary is your indirect object. It answers to whom; it comes between the action verb and the direct object.
• Jeff gave a headache to Mary. ( No indirect object)
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OBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT
• An Objective Complement is a noun or adjective that comes after the direct object either renaming or describing that object. … A noun renames the D.O.
• … An adjective describes the D.O.
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A TEST TO LOCATE OBJECTIVE COMPLEMENTS
• If you can substitute the verbs consider or make for the verb, it may be an objective complement.
• If you can add to be before the objective complement, it will contain one also.
• We elected Cynthia president.
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VERBS THAT USUALLY HAVE AN OBJECTIVE COM.
• MAKE
• CONSIDER• ELECT
• APPOINT
• NAME
• CHOOSE
• RENDER
• THOUGHT
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EXAMPLES
• Henry VIII made Catherine of Aragon his queen.
• Todd considers Marilyn quite intelligent.
• She thought the day disagreeable.
• Jealousy made Othello a murderer.
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RETAINED OBJECTS• A noun that remains an object when a
verb, having both a direct and indirect object in the active voice, is put into the passive voice.
• The one object becomes the subject and the other remains the object.
• Remember: in the active voice, the subject acts. In the passive, it receives.
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Examples• ACTIVE VOICE:
…The band granted him a year’s leave of absence.
• PASSIVE VOICE: …He was granted a year’s leave of absence.
• Your I.O.became the subject and your D.O. became the R.O.
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• ACTIVE VOICE:
• The teacher asked the student a difficult question.
• PASSIVE VOICE:
• The student was asked a difficult question.