Sunday, December 27, 2009
In grammar, what is the difference between a complement and an object?
modern linguists hold that object is the constituent in a sentence that could be changed into a passive voice, for example ,in the phrase';change train ';,train is a complement rather than an object,because we can't say that train is changed.It seems quite baffling as we usually regard the part following a verb as an object
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