object complement

American  

noun

Grammar.

1. a word or a group of words used in the predicate following a factitive verb and referring to its direct object, as treasurer in We appointed him treasurer, white in They painted the house white, or an interesting speaker in They thought him an interesting speaker.

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Etymology

Origin of object complement

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

Find in it a subject, a predicate, and an object complement.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd

In who are looking reproach, what is the object complement of are looking?

From Graded Lessons in English An Elementary English Grammar Consisting of One Hundred Practical Lessons, Carefully Graded and Adapted to the Class-Room by Reed, Alonzo

You see that the object, the word that names the receiver of the act, may be the subject, or it may be the object complement.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd

This form of the verb is frequently the principal word of a phrase used as a subject or as an object, complement; as, To read good books is profitable; I like to read good books.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd

Put what after would find in 2 and get the object complement.

From Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition by Kellogg, Brainerd