🖇 Structure
◼️ Subject + Transitive Verb + Object +
Noun-Complement
appoint/appointed/appointed
They appointed him headmaster.
crown/crowned/crowned
The people crowned him king.
label/labelled/labelled
They labelled him a demagogue.
name/named/named
Mr and Mrs Hakim named their son Rahim.
elect/elected/elected
We elected Mr. Hasan secretary of the club.
☑️ These verbs are used in the manners applied in the following examples :
call believe find
consider make prove
declare think
📃 Examples:
He called me a fool.
We consider Socrates a genius.
The police declared the man a criminal.
The Government believed the conference a success.
The University made him a professor.
I thought him an illiterate man.
They found him the right man for the job.
Events proved him an innocent man.
I thought him an illiterate man.
They found him the right man for the job.
Events proved him an innocent man.
🖇 Structure
◼️ Verb + as/for + Noun-Complement
accept as
describe as
regard as
acknowledge as
interpret as
take as/for
consider as
know as
treat as
define as
recognize as
use as
☑️ Examples:
We cannot accept him as our leader.
They acknowledge him as an honest man.
Grammarians define a noun as a name for something.
I know him as an honest man.
I mistook you for your brother.
They took him for a fool.
The Muslims treat Mecca as the centre of the Islamic World.
☑️ Examples in the paragraph :
a) Mr. A. K. Fazul Hug considered it a great honour to serve the people. He proved himself to be a courageous man. The
people nicknamed him Sher-e-Bangla, the tiger of Bengal. They have always regarded him as a great national leader.
b) The whole world considers Socrates a wise man. But some people in Athens condemned him as a bad influence upon
the youth. They also denounced him as an impious man. Actually they found him to be a dangerous person. Now we know them to be mean, selfish, misguided people. We believe it a pity to have put a man like Socrates to death.
