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<div id="mw-content-text" class="mw-body-content mw-content-ltr" lang="en" dir="ltr"><div class="mw-content-ltr mw-parser-output" lang="en" dir="ltr"><p>In <a href="Grammar" title="Grammar">grammar</a>, an <b>object complement</b> is a <a href="Predicative_expression" title="Predicative expression">predicative expression</a> that follows a <a href="Direct_object" class="mw-redirect" title="Direct object">direct object</a> of an <a href="Ditransitive_verb#Attributive_ditransitive_verbs" title="Ditransitive verb">attributive ditransitive</a> or <a href="Resultative" title="Resultative">resultative verb</a> and that <a href="Complement_(linguistics)" title="Complement (linguistics)">complements</a> the direct object of the <a href="Sentence_(linguistics)" title="Sentence (linguistics)">sentence</a> by describing it.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Object complements are <a href="Constituent_(linguistics)" title="Constituent (linguistics)">constituents</a> of the <a href="Predicate_(grammar)" title="Predicate (grammar)">predicate</a>. Noun phrases and adjective phrases most frequently function as object complements.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>The object complement is bold in the following examples:
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<dl><dd><dl><dd><ul><li>She painted the barn <b>red</b>. <small>– Adjective as object complement</small></li></ul></dd></dl></dd></dl>
<p>Here, <i>painted</i> is an attributive ditransitive verb. The direct object is <i>the barn</i>. The object complement construction allows for the combination of the sentences <i>She painted the barn</i> and <i>The barn was painted red</i>.
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<dl><dd><dl><dd><ul><li>He considers you <b>a friend</b>. <small>– Noun phrase as object complement</small></li></ul></dd></dl></dd></dl>
<p>Here, <i>considers</i> is an attributive ditransitive verb. The direct object is <i>you</i>. The object complement construction allows for the combination of the sentences <i>He considers you</i> and <i>You are a friend</i>.
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div>
<ul><li><a href="Object_(grammar)#Types" title="Object (grammar)">Direct object</a></li>
<li><a href="Complement_(linguistics)" title="Complement (linguistics)">Complement (linguistics)</a></li>
<li><a href="Object_(grammar)" title="Object (grammar)">Object (grammar)</a></li>
<li><a href="Predicate_(grammar)" title="Predicate (grammar)">Predicate (grammar)</a></li>
<li><a href="Predicative_expression" title="Predicative expression">Predicative expression</a></li>
<li><a href="Resultative" title="Resultative">Resultative</a></li>
<li><a href="Subject_complement" title="Subject complement">Subject complement</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Brinton, Laurel J. & Donna M. Brinton. 2010. The linguistic structure of Modern English, 2nd edn. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hopper, Paul J. 1999. A short course in grammar. New York: W. W. Norton & Company.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Huddleston, Rodney. 1984. Introduction to the grammar of English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Quirk, Randolph, Sidney Greenbaum, Jan Svartvik, & Geoffrey Leech. 1985. A comprehensive grammar of the English language. London: Longman.</span>
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