Connected objects completing
the same verb form a +Compound Object Complement+; as, Washington captured
_Cornwallis_ and his _army_.
+DEFINITION.--The _Object Complement of a Sentence_ completes the
predicate, and names that which receives the act.+
The complement with all its modifiers is called the +Modified Complement.+
+Analysis.+
1. Clear thinking makes clear writing.
thinking | makes | writing
============|=====================
\ clear | \clear
+Oral Analysis+.---_Writing_ is the object complement; _clear writing_ is
the modified complement, and _makes clear writing_ is the entire predicate.
2. Austerlitz killed Pitt.
3. The invention of gunpowder destroyed feudalism.
4. Liars should have good memories.
5. We find the first surnames in the tenth century.
6. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.
7. Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning-rod.
8. At the opening of the thirteenth century, Oxford took and held rank with
the greatest schools of Europe.
took
/---------\
Oxford | / ' \ | rank
========|=and' ==========
| \ ' /
\ ' held /
\-------/
revolves
/------------
moon | / '
======|== and'
| \ '
\ ' keeps | side
\---------------
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