Part of their everyday stump speeches
"Politicians from both major parties have made condemning the harsh tone of politics part of their everyday stump speeches."
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Is the non-finite clause condemning the harsh tone of politics a direct object of the verb "make" and the noun phrase part of their everyday stump speeches a noun complement of the direct object in the sentence above?
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tkacka15 Is the non-finite clause condemning the harsh tone of politics a direct object of the verb "make" and the noun phrase part of their everyday stump speeches a noun complement of the direct object in the sentence above? Essentially, yes. to make an X a Y is the pattern.
- tkacka15 Is the non-finite clause condemning the harsh tone of politics a direct object of the verb "make" and the noun phrase part of their everyday stump speeches a noun complement of the direct object in the sentence above?
- Essentially, yes.
- to make an X a Y is the pattern.
- Here the X is a gerund clause complement of 'make'.
- Many linguists nowadays would say "complement of 'make'" rather than "direct object of 'make'".
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tkacka15Is the non-finite clause condemning the harsh tone of politics a direct object of the verb "make" and the noun phrase part of their everyday stump speeches a noun complement of the direct object in the sentence above?
Essentially, yes. to make an X a Y is the pattern.
Here the X is a gerund clause complement of 'make'. Many linguists
0"Politicians from both major parties have made [condemning the harsh tone of politics] [part of their everyday stump speeches]." The two groups of words in brackets both function as nouns. The first bracketed group functions as the direct object of the verb "have made."
The second bracketed group might be looked at as an elliptical construction, with the words "into a" omitted, an
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