Recognizing Complements
What is a complement?
Completes the meaning of a verb.
What is an direct object?
noun or pronoun that receives the action of a verb.
What are indirect objects?
noun or pronoun that comes between a verb and direct object.
What is a predicate nominative?
a noun or pronoun that follows a linking verb and describes the subject in the sentence.
What is a predicate adjective?
Rowboat.
Luke loves games and puzzles.
Games and puzzles.
What questions to indirect objects answer?
To whom or to what, or for whom and for what
During my childhood, Where the Wild Things Are was my favorite book.
book.
My little brother felt proud because of his perfect attendance award.
proud.
Everyone is happy about the party.
Happy.
Did you see the program last night about repairing the space telescope?
program.
The doctor wrote Elena a note.
note.
The dogs in the newspaper photo are Fido and Red.
Fido and Red.
The jazz clarinet player is popular and talented.
popular and talented.
Cold.
The scientists discovered the footprints and bones of a dinosaur by the riverbank.
footprints and bones.
Will you bring us some chowder?
Albert Einstein became a mathematician.
mathematician.
My friend Tom looked satisfied with his grade.
satisfied.
Nervous.
I made chicken and vegetable soup.
Chicken and vegetable.
The salesman sold Ann a DVD.
DVD.
That story remained an interested mystery until the last page.
mystery.
Does that picture seem crooked to you?
crooked.