Complements

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Complements
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Complement

• A word or word group that completes the meaning
  of a verb
• That book is an autobiography.
• Bob felt confident.
• Joey hit a home run.
• Aunt Sophie watched us fishing.

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Complements

• Linking verbs Subject Complements
• Predicate Nominatives
• Predicate Adjectives
• Action (transitive) verbs objects
• Direct objects
• Indirect objects

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Subject Complements

• A word or word group that completes the meaning
  of a linking verb, and identifies or modifies the
  subject
• Predicate Nominative
• Predicate Adjective
• Randy seems worried.
• Lani is a soccer player.
• Michelangelo was a famous artist.

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Predicate nominative

• A word or word group that is in the predicate and
  that identifies the subject or refers to it.
• Some caterpillars become butterflies.
• The winners should have been Mary and Alexis.
• She is the next speaker.

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Predicate adjective

• An adjective that is in the predicate and
  modifies the subject of a sentence or a clause.
• You look happy.
• Norma appeared calm.
• How silly that commercial is!

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Object of a verb

• A complement (noun, pronoun, or word group) that
  completes the meaning of a transitive verb
• Does not identify or modify the subject
• The cat was chasing a moth.
• We enjoy playing chess.
• After she had read us the story, she gave us a
  quiz on it.

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Direct Object

• A noun, pronoun, or word group that tells who or
  what receives the action of a transitive verb, or
  shows the result of the action.
• I took my little sister to the movie.
• She had already seen it once.
• Tom was driving his car.

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Indirect object

• A noun, pronoun, or word group that often appears
  in a sentence containing direct objects. It tells
  to (or for) whom or what the action of a
  transitive verb is done.
• Usually found between the verb and the direct
  object.
• Meli read us her poem.
• I fed the horses some oats.
• Jeff wrote me a note.

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Homework-due Tues

• Chapter 2
• Ex. 9-13, Rev. C