A sentence may contain a noun or pronoun as a subject, and a verb that makes up the predicate. Many sentences, though, require an additional group of words in order to express a complete though.
* I threw. (This is not a sentence as it does not express a complete though although it contains a subject as a verb that serves as a predicate. Some words are needed to express what I threw.)
*
I threw the stone. (The stone completes the sentence)
Complements of Action Verbs
A complement completes the meaning expressed by the verb (like woman and a man, if they both agree).
A.
Direct object a verb expresses
action. The direct object of a verb names the receiver of the action.
B. Transitive verb takes a direct object, and shows the doer of the action in the subject and a receiver of the action, the direct object, in the predicate.
C. Intransitive- Any verb that does not take a direct object.
Transitive verb: The old man embraced his long lost son.
Intransitive verb: The son was embraced tightly.
D.
Indirect subject tells whom the
action is directed or for whom the action is performed. Some verbs that express
action take two objects, a direct and an indirect object.
Complements of Linking Verbs
It is not only action verbs that have complements.
Linking verbs required complements as these cannot make complete predicates.
For example, the linking verb is requires some additional word or words to
express a complete predicate. That word can be a predicate noun, predicate
pronoun or a predicate adjective.
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