{"id":73753,"date":"2020-04-05T03:36:37","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T03:36:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/?p=73753"},"modified":"2020-04-05T03:36:37","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T03:36:37","slug":"subject-and-object-complements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/subject-and-object-complements\/","title":{"rendered":"Subject And Object Complements"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some clauses consist of a subject, the verb\u00a0<b>be\u00a0<\/b>and an expression that either modifies the subject or denotes something identical to the subject.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jane is a journalist.<\/li>\n<li>The children were very excited.<\/li>\n<li>Susie is in the shower.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The expression that modifies the subject in clauses like these is often called\u00a0<b>a subject complement.<\/b>\u00a0Subject complements can also follow other copular verbs like\u00a0<b>become, seem\u00a0<\/b>and\u00a0<b>look.<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Alice became\u00a0<b>a doctor.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>She looks\u00a0<b>depressed.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Object complement<\/h3>\n<p>An\u00a0<b>object complement\u00a0<\/b>is a phrase which follows a direct object and either modifies that object or denotes something identical to it.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>She called me\u00a0<b>a liar.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>They made her\u00a0<b>a star.<\/b><\/li>\n<li>I consider hang-gliding\u00a0<b>dangerous.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Complements of verbs, nouns and adjectives<\/h3>\n<p>Words and expressions which complete the meaning of a verb, noun or adjective are also called complements.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am fond\u00a0<b>of children.\u00a0<\/b>(<i>of children\u00a0<\/i>is the complement of the adjective fond.)<\/li>\n<li>I am sorry\u00a0<b>to tell you this.\u00a0<\/b>(<i>to tell you this<\/i>\u00a0is the complement of the adjective sorry.)<\/li>\n<li>Let us get a bottle\u00a0<b>of wine.\u00a0<\/b>(<i>of wine\u00a0<\/i>is the complement of the noun bottle.)<\/li>\n<li>She wants\u00a0<b>to find a new job.\u00a0<\/b>(<i>to find a new job<\/i>\u00a0is the complement of the verb wants.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It is important to know what kinds of complements can come after a particular word. For example,\u00a0<b>interested\u00a0<\/b>can be followed by\u00a0<b>in \u2026 -ing\u00a0<\/b>or by an infinitive;\u00a0<b>want\u00a0<\/b>can be followed by an infinitive, but\u00a0<b>suggest\u00a0<\/b>cannot; on the other hand\u00a0<b>suggest\u00a0<\/b>can be followed by a\u00a0<b>that-clause,\u00a0<\/b>but\u00a0<b>want\u00a0<\/b>cannot.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I am interested\u00a0<b>in learning\u00a0<\/b>to fly.<\/li>\n<li>I want\u00a0<b>to take\u00a0<\/b>a long holiday.<\/li>\n<li>The doctor suggested\u00a0<b>taking\u00a0<\/b>a long holiday.<\/li>\n<li>The doctor suggested\u00a0<b>that I should take a long holiday.<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some clauses consist of a subject, the verb\u00a0be\u00a0and an expression that either modifies the subject or denotes something identical to the subject. Jane is a journalist. The children were very excited. Susie is in&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[2502,798,797],"class_list":["post-73753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-grammar","tag-complements","tag-object-complement","tag-subject-complement"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73754,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73753\/revisions\/73754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/perfectyourenglish.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}