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CHAPTER 2
GRAMMAR
COMPLEMENTS: A WORD OR WORD GROUP
THAT COMPLETES THE MEANING OF A VERB
• Examples:
• The book is an
autobiography
• Rob felt confident
• Joey hit a home run
• Sandra Cisneros writes
poetry and fiction
• Tino wants a new tennis
racket
• Aunt Sophie watched us
fishing.
Do not mistake an adverb for a
complement
Lucy works hard
A complement will never be in
a prepositional phrase
Christopher quoted from
the poem
FINDING COMPLEMENTS
• Find your subject and verb in the sentence
• Then put your subject and verb together and ask “What” after.
• Your answer will be the complement
• Example: She threw the ball
• She=subject, threw=verb
• She threw what?
• Ball=complement
The speaker looked very enthusiastic.
The Girl Scout built a fire.
PREDICATE NOMINATIVE: A WORD OR WORD GROUP THAT
IS IN THE PREDICATE AND THAT IDENTIFIES THE SUBJECT OR
REFERS TO IT. FOLLOWS A LINKING VERB AND ALWAYS A
NOUN.
• Use the same “what” method to find your predicate
nominative
• Some caterpillars become butterflies.
• The winners should have been they.
• She is the new speaker.
• Our cats’ names are Bianca and Henry.
• What a fine speaker you are!
PREDICATE ADJECTIVE: AN ADJECTIVE THAT IS IN THE
PREDICATE AND THAT MODIFIES THE SUBJECT OF A
SENTENCE. FOLLOWS A LINKING VERB AND IS AN
ADJECTIVE.
• You look happy.
• When she left, Norma appeared calm.
• He said that the yogurt tasted delicious.
• How silly that commercial is.
DIRECT OBJECTS AND INDIRECT OBJECTS: FOLLOW
ACTION VERBS
• Direct object: a noun, pronoun, or word group that tells who or
what receives the action of the verb.
• Indirect object: a noun, pronoun, or word group that appears in
sentences containing a direct object. An indirect object tells to
whom or to what the action of the verb is done to.
• Examples:
• Meli read us her poem
• Juan left you this message.
• Carly knitted her pet a blanket.
FINDING DIRECT AND INDIRECT OBJECTS
• Find the subject and verb
• Examples
• Then ask “What” after the
subject and verb
• I kicked him the ball
• This answer will be the direct
object
• I kicked what?
• If there is an indirect object, Ask
“To whom” before the subject
and verb.
• To whom did I kick it?
• Subject= I, Verb= kicked
• Ball=direct object
• Him= Indirect object
Jeff wrote me a note.
Our ski instructor game Lucia
and me great tips.