Glossary of Linguistic Terms

Object Complement

Definition: 

An object complement is a complement that is used to predicate a description of the direct object.

Examples: 
  • The people made Ambrose bishop.
  • The people considered Ambrose holy.
See Also: 
Direct Object
Source: 
Crystal 1985
60
Quirk, Greenbaum, Leech, and Svartvik 1985
55

This page is an extract from the LinguaLinks Library. Version 5.0 published on CD-ROM by SIL International, 2003.

LinguaLinks Ordering Information

Glossary Hierarchy

  • Syntactic Function
  • Complement
  • Object Complement