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Anonymous Posted 16 years ago
Grammar
Object complement
I sleep with my windows open.
We won the match with the key players injured.
What are open and injured in the above sentences ? Object complements ?
We won the match with the key players injured.
What are open and injured in the above sentences ? Object complements ?
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I think that the term, "object complement", is reserved for complements of a direct object in a sentence, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone called your examples 'object complements'. Strictly speaking, they are complements of objects of a prepositional phrase and I would never call them simply 'object complements', as that would be ambiguous.
- I think that the term, "object complement", is reserved for complements of a direct object in a sentence, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone called your examples 'object complements'.
- Strictly speaking, they are complements of objects of a prepositional phrase and I would never call them simply 'object complements', as that would be ambiguous.
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I think that the term, "object complement", is reserved for complements of a direct object in a sentence, but I wouldn't be surprised if someone called your examples 'object complements'. Strictly speaking, they are complements of objects of a prepositional phrase and I would never call them simply 'object complements', as that would be ambiguous.
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These aren't really prepositional phrases. You don't really "sleep with your windows", for example.
with can introduce what's called a "small clause" -- a subject and its complement, but no finite verb. In both of your examples the complement is an adjective. Here's how they look if you insert the implied linking verb (though they are ungrammatical as written):
I sleep
with can introduce what's called a "small clause" -- a subject and its complement, but no finite verb. In both of your examples the complement is an adjective. Here's how they look if you insert the implied linking verb (though they are ungrammatical as written):
I sleep
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