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objective complement

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A noun, adjective, or pronoun serving as a complement to a verb and qualifying its direct object, as governor in They elected him governor.

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  • 'The object also may need added words to complete the meaning of the predicate. Such words are called objective complements. They elected Henry captain. He painted the house white.'

    — Henry Wyman Holmes, Composition and Rhetoric, p340

    November 2, 2009