9. This book is presented to you as a token of esteem and gratitude.
10. The warrior fell back upon the bed a lifeless corpse.
11. The apple tastes and smells delicious.
12. Lord Darnley turned out a dissolute and insolent husband.
13. In the fable of the Discontented Pendulum, the weights hung speechless.
14. The brightness and freedom of the New Learning seemed incarnate in the
young and scholarly Sir Thomas More.
15. Sir Philip Sidney lived and died the darling of the Court, and the
gentleman and idol of the time.
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LESSON 31.
OBJECTIVE COMPLEMENTS.
+Introductory Hints+.--_He made the wall white._ Here _made_ does not fully
express the act performed upon the wall. We do not mean to say, He _made_
the white _wall_, but, He _made-white_ (_whitened_) the wall. _White_ helps
_made_ to express the act, and at the same time it denotes the quality
attributed to the wall as the result of the act.
_They made Victoria queen_. Here _made_ does not fully express the act
performed upon Victoria. They did not _make_ Victoria, but _made-queen_
(_crowned_) Victoria. _Queen_ helps _made_ to express the act, and at the
same time denotes the office to which the act raised Victoria.
A word that, like the adjective _white_ or the noun _queen_, helps to
complete the predicate and at the same time belongs to the object
complement, differs from an attribute complement by belonging not to the
subject but to the object complement, and so is called an +Objective
Complement+.
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