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Anonymous Posted 13 years ago
Grammar

sentence pattern

I have a question.
She gets sick.
This is subject-verb-complement.
How about this:
She get a headache.
  

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Anonymous She gets a headache. Same thing, except the complement is a noun instead of an adjective.

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  • Anonymous She gets a headache.
  • Same thing, except the complement is a noun instead of an adjective.
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AnonymousShe gets a headache.
Same thing, except the complement is a noun instead of an adjective.
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AnonymousShe get a headache.
I'd say that was subject - verb - (direct) object)
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fivejedjonI'd say that was subject - verb - (direct) object)
That works, too. An object is a type of complement.
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Aspara Gus fivejedjonI'd say that was subject - verb - (direct) object)That works, too. An object is a type of complement.
The problem with sentence analysis using these terms is that there is no universal agreement on what they mean. What in one system may be a direct object, a very different thing from a complement in that system, may be an object complemen
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