OBJECT COMPLEMENT

Gerunds may also be used (though this not common) as object complements:

Object complements with gerunds are possible with only a few verbs. The most common ones are call and consider.

Ms. Jones considers tardiness being more than five minutes late for class.

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What Is An Objective Complement?

We named our daughter Alice.

You were probably able to identify Alice as a noun, but were you able to figure out what function Alice is serving in the sentence? Alice is something called an objective complement.

An objective complement is a noun or adjective that completes the meaning of the verb and modifies, names, or renames the direct object.
Since these modify, name, or rename direct objects, you'll only find them in sentences that have direct objects. (That also means the sentence will have a transitive active verb.)

We named our daughter Alice.

They elected my uncle mayor.

This music makes me happy.

We consider you good friends.

Named, elected, makes, and consider are transitive active verbs.

Daughter, uncle, me, and you are direct objects.

Alice, mayor, happy, and friends are objective complements. They are completing the meaning of the verb, and they either describe or rename the direct object.

English Grammar: What is the difference between an object complement and an indirect object?

To be able to understand the difference between an object compliment and an indirect object, we should be knowing the direct object and the indirect object.

Let's talk about the direct and indirect object for a moment.

A direct object is a non living thing or an object which receives the action of the verb. It could be a word, a phrase, or a clause. Asking What to the verb in the sentence would give you the direct object. Let's take some examples!

Examples-

He kicked a ball.
He kicked a big red ball.
He slapped the guy who was wearing a black leather jacket.

Asking “What” to the verbs kicked and slapped, above, gets us our direct objects .( bold part fragments)

An indirect object is a noun or a pronoun who or whom the action is worked upon. Asking who or whom to the verb gets us the indirect object in a sentence. It is mostly found in sentences where bitransitive verbs are employed. Let us take some examples!

Examples:

He gifted me a car.
I showed him the mobile that I had bought.
My mother taught me cooking.
The teacher recommended us a cheap book.

Here, the italicized words are Indirect objects and the bold parts, words, phrases and clauses, are direct objects. Asking what to the verbs get us the direct objects in the above sentences.

Now, let's talk about the object compliment. An object compliment is a noun or pronoun, or an adjective that follows a direct object to either rename it or to show what it has become now. Here are some sentences having object compliment in them: