Object Complement + Prepositional Phrase?

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Hello, guys.I have been reading about Object Complements (I named him president, I made her a cake)..And I noticed that it doesn't say whether or not we can use a prepositional phrase as an object complement, so it made me wonder: How woud I describe this sentence?I accused him of doing itOf doing is probably an object complement, complementing the direct object "me" of the transitive verb "accused" ,so? It means prepositional phrases can, indeed, be object complement?

CalifJim · Accepted Answer

ProdigyI named him president.

'him' is the object. 'president' is the object complement.
At the end of this action he is the president.

ProdigyI made her a cake.

'her' is an indirect object. 'a cake' is a direct object. 'made' is a ditransitive verb in this sentence. There is no object complement because at the end of this action she is not a cake. A Hollywood producer might say I made her a star, however, and in that sentence 'star' is an object complement. At the end of that action she is a star.

Prodigya prepositional phrase as an object complement

No. The terminology 'object complement' is not used for those patterns.

ProdigyI accused him of doing it

'accuse' takes a direct object and an optional second complement (a gerund) introduced by the preposition 'of'. You might say that 'accuse of' is a prepositional verb with two complements. It's a ditransitive prepositional verb.
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Note also:

accuse someone of, convince someone of, remind someone of, clear someone of, deprive someone of, rob someone of, relieve someone of, strip someone of, rid someone of, suspect someone of, convict someone of, acquit someone of, alert someone of

CJ

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