Object Complements 3D Lecture

What is an object complement?

An object complement comes after a direct object and renames or describes that same object.

We painted the door blue.

Door receives the action. Blue describes the door’s resulting state.

Result Workshop

Change the action, direct object, and result. Watch the same object gain a new state or identity.

Experiment Result Workshop

Subject We

Action verb painted

Direct object the door

Object complement blue

Time Past

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Live sentence analyzer

SentenceWe painted the door blue.

Action verbpainted

Direct objectthe door

Object complementblue

Equality testthe door is blue

Painted what? The door. Blue describes the resulting door.

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Learning objectives

Find the action verb and direct object.
Identify a noun or adjective object complement.
Explain how the complement renames or describes the direct object.
Use the equality test: object is complement.

Key idea

In They named the puppy Bruno, puppy receives the action and Bruno renames that same puppy. In The joke made Ali happy, happy describes Ali’s resulting condition.

Suggested experiments

Compare door → blue with Maya → captain.
Remove the final complement and observe what information disappears.
Switch between noun and adjective complements.
Apply the equality test to every scene.

Common misconceptions

The object complement is not a second direct object.
It describes or renames the direct object, not the subject.
Not every word after a direct object is an object complement.
Object complements commonly follow make, name, elect, call, paint, find and consider.

Object-complement challenge

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