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Holyduke Posted 15 years ago
Grammar

Sentence construction

Hi,

I ran across this sentence

People considered Chris honest.

Is this sentence legal? what part of speech is honest in this sentence? (I thought honest can only be adj.)

Chris is considered honest. The grammar book transformed the sentence into passive but I am tempted to add "to be"

I hear people use the sentences from above, but grammatically I don't understand why they are used.

Are the following sentences correct?

People considered Chris to be honest or People considered chris to be a honest person/guy.

Chris is considered to be honest (by many people)
  

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holyduke People considered Chris honest. Is this sentence legal? what part of speech is honest in this sentence?

— CalifJim

  • holyduke People considered Chris honest.
  • Is this sentence legal?
  • what part of speech is honest in this sentence?
  • The sentence is fine.
  • honest is an adjective, as you correctly guessed.
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holydukePeople considered Chris honest.
Is this sentence legal? what part of speech is honest in this sentence?
The sentence is fine. honest is an adjective, as you correctly guessed. The adjective honest functions as an object complement.

holydukeI am tempted to add "to be"
You could add that i
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object complements...

I really wished I had studied harder by myself when I was young Emotion: sad

[frankly, in all my year unde
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holydukefrankly, in all my year under "American" education", no English teacher ever taught me anything close to this
That is understandable. These are very advanced topics. You should be happy with your progress, because now you are asking questions about very specialized grammar that even most native speakers don't know very much about.
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