Recognizing Complements
Often, however, a verb needs a complement to complete its
meaning.
•Examples:
Incomplete: My aunt found (what?)
Complete: My aunt found a wallet. (The noun wallet completes the meaning of the verb found.
•Examples:
Complete: Sarah bought herself a new jacket. (The pronoun herself and the noun jacket complete the meaning
of the verb bought.
An adverb is never a
complement.
Adverb: The koala chews slowly. (The adverb slowly modifies the verb by telling how the koala chews.
Complements: The koala chews eucalyptus leaves. (The noun leaves completes the meaning
of the verb chews by telling what the koala chews.)
A complement is never a part of a prepositional phrase.
Object of Preposition:
Hannah is riding to her friend’s house. (The noun house is the object of the
preposition to.)
Complement: Hannah is riding her bicycle. (The noun bicycle completes the meaning
of the verb phrase is riding by telling what Hannah is riding.)Objects of Verbs
•Direct Objects
•
A direct object answers the question Whom? or What? after a transitive
verb.
•Examples:
•
My brother bought a model. (My brother bought what? Bought a model.
The noun model receives the action
of the verb bought.)
A direct object may be a compound of two or more objects.
Examples:
Did the car have spoked wheels and a spoiler? (The compound direct object of the verb Did have is wheel
and spoiler.)
A direct object can never follow a linking verb because a
linking verb does not express action.
Linking Verb: Julia Morgan was an architect. (The verb was does not express
action; therefore, architect is not a direct object.)
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