Object complements
In the sentence The artist sold my father one of her charcoal sketches, would you consider one of her charcoal sketches an object complement? I would consider it an adjective phrase modifying one, but I don't see its role as complement. I have always considered the object complement part of the essential point of the sentence. For example, in the sentence I named my puppy Tux, one of the main points is to say what I named my puppy. I have never considered every prepositional phrase modifying the direct object to be an object complement.
What are your thoughts on that?
Top answer
No, "one of her charcoal sketches" is the direct object. Let me rearrange to make it clearer: The artist sold a sketch to my father.
- No, "one of her charcoal sketches" is the direct object.
- Let me rearrange to make it clearer: The artist sold a sketch to my father.
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No, "one of her charcoal sketches" is the direct object. Let me rearrange to make it clearer:
The artist sold a sketch to my father.
0blue skiesThe artist | sold | my father | one of her charcoal sketches
This is a ditransitive construction.
S V IO DO (subject, verb, indirect object, direct object)
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blue skiesI | named | my puppy | Tux
This is a complex transitive construction.
S V DO OC (subject, verb, direct object, object
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