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Anonymous Posted 5 years ago
Grammar

Can Subjective Complement be placed after Object?

Hi. I'm not an english user, and I started learning english recently. So please excuse me for my poor english.

Here is my question:

1. They left the house deserted.

2. They left the house unnoticed.

My english teacher showed me these two sentences. He said that the structure of the first one is S + V + O + O.C., and of the second one is S + V + O + S.C.

I've never seen S+V+O+S.C structure before, so I'm very confused now.

Is my teacher's explanation about S.C. right? if not, how can this sentence be analyzed?

  

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anonymous 1. They left the house deserted. Deserted describes the state of the house.

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  • anonymous 1.
  • They left the house deserted.
  • Deserted describes the state of the house.
  • anonymous 2.
  • They left the house unnoticed.
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anonymous1. They left the house deserted.

Deserted describes the state of the house.

anonymous2. They left the house unnoticed.

Unnoticed is adverbial. It describes the manner in which they departed.

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Thank for your reply!

But isn't "unnoticed" adjective? Can adjective be adverbial?

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I appreciate your help. Thanks a lot!

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anonymousHe said that the structure of the first one is S + V + O + O.C., and of the second one is S + V + O + S.C.

Some people do analyze those that way. I'm not really surprised.

It's probably just as well they use some simple terminology because here's one of the alternatives:

1. They left the house deserted.

'deserted' is an object

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