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As the objective complement generally denotes what the receiver of the act
is made to be, in fact or in thought, it is sometimes called the _factitive
complement_ or the _factitive object_ (Lat. _facere_, to make). [Footnote:
See Lesson 37, last foot-note.]
Some of the other verbs which are thus completed are _call_, _think_,
_choose_, and _name_.

+DEFINITION.--The _Objective Complement_ completes the predicate and
belongs to the object complement.+
Analysis.
1. They made Victoria queen.
They | made / queen | Victoria
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+Explanation+.--The line that separates _made_ from _queen_ slants toward
the object complement to show that _queen_ belongs to the object.
+Oral Analysis+.--_Queen_ is an objective complement completing _made_ and
belonging to _Victoria_; _made Victoria queen_ is the complete predicate.
2. Some one has called the eye the window of the soul.
3. Destiny had made Mr. Churchill a schoolmaster.
4. President Hayes chose the Hon. Wm. M. Evarts Secretary of State.
5. After a break of sixty years in the ducal line of the English nobility,
James I. created the worthless Villiers Duke of Buckingham.
6. We should consider time as a sacred trust.
+Explanation+.


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