What members of the sentence?

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What members of the sentence are  "found" and "difficult"? Are they a predicate and an attribute?She found it difficult to make a movement.And "to make a movement" is an object, I suppose.

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..........verb .....dummy object......objective predicative complement.................extraposed object
She ...found ............it ................................difficult ..................................to make a movement.

Infinitival clauses can’t occur between a verb and its predicative complement (*She found to make a movement difficult), so instead they are extraposed (placed at the end of the clause) and dummy it is inserted to fill the object position.

(Find means “to perceive to be, after experience”.)

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