☑️ Subject + Transitive Verb + Object (Noun, Pronoun) + Adjective-Complement
◻️ Structure
◼️ Subject + Transitive Verb + Object + Adjective
get/got/got
Her mother is getting breakfast ready.
hold/held/held
They held the engineer responsible
for the collapse of the building.
like/liked/liked
I like my tea hot.
drive/drove/driven
Your behaviour will drive your father mad.
keep/kept/kept
The nurse kept the baby quiet.
leave/left/left
He left the door open.
make/made/made
They made themselves comfortable.
render/rendered/rendered
The storm rendered many people
homeless.
turn/turned/turned
Grief turned his hair white.
wipe/wiped/wiped
He wiped the window clean.
break/broke/broken
burst/burst/burst door open.
force/forced/forced
The thieves broke (burst, forced) the door.
☑️ In the following sentences, to be can be used but it is not compulsory.
📃 Examples:
consider/considered/considered
I consider him (to be) clever.
declare/declared/declared
The President declared the conference
(to be) open.
find/found/found
I found him (to be) dishonest.
prove/proved/proved
The evidence proved the accused (to be) guilty.
think/thought/thought
They think Karim (to be) clever.
believe/believed/believed
I believe him (to be) honest.
☑️ In the following sentences, to be must be used because it is compulsory.
feel/felt/felt
They felt the plan to be unwise.
discover/discovered/discovered
We discovered him to be unreliable.
suppose/supposed/supposed
Our neighbours supposed us to be
unsociable.
report/reported/reported
They reported the bridge to be unusable.
judge/judged/judged
judge him to be forty.
imagine/imagined/imagined
We imagined the situation to be grave.
◻️Structure :
◼️as + adjective/adjective phrase
regard/regarded/regarded
We regard the boy as clever.
condemn/condemned/condemned
The public condemned the politicians as corrupt.
treat/treated/treated
He treated the matter as urgent.
acknowledge/ acknowledged/
acknowledged
The government acknowledged the donations as generous.
