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can you help me label this sentence correctly: Scurvy makes people weak and sore. One person says Makes is the verb, people is an indirect object and weak and sore are direct objects.
i think that weak and sore are either object complements to people ( Direct object) or weak and sore are adverbs modifying makes Can you help
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Anonymous One person says Makes is the verb, people is an indirect object and weak and sore are direct objects. Impossible. Anonymous i think that weak and sore are either object complements to people ( Direct object) or weak and sore are adverbs modifying makes The adverb interpretation says that scurvy makes people in a weak and sore manner.
- Anonymous One person says Makes is the verb, people is an indirect object and weak and sore are direct objects.
- Impossible.
- Anonymous i think that weak and sore are either object complements to people ( Direct object) or weak and sore are adverbs modifying makes The adverb interpretation says that scurvy makes people in a weak and sore manner.
- It's highly doubtful that that could be the intended meaning.
- "Object complements" is the more reasonable analysis.
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AnonymousOne person says Makes is the verb, people is an indirect object and weak and sore are direct objects.
Impossible.
Anonymousi think that weak and sore are either object complements to people ( Direct object) or weak and sore are adverbs modifying makes
The adverb interpretation says that scurvy makes people
0I would say that 'people' is the direct object, and 'weak and sore' is the complement of 'make'.
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