Complex-transitive Verb
Another class of verb to appear with a complement is called COMPLEX TRANSITIVE.
With this type of verb the complement relates to the object not to the subject.
The complement is therefor an OBJECT COMPLEMENT and the shorthand version is oC
Examples
The voters elected Mary president
s-----p------dO-----oC
Kate thought John a fool
S-----P-----dO------oC
With this type of verb , two elements are obligatory to complete the verb phrase , two noun pharase
The tree diagram for second example is
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