Complement (predicative)
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The term complement is sometimes used to denote the grammatical funtion of predicative phrases, in the same sense as predicate nominal. This terminology is widely known especially from Quirk et al. 1985.
Examples
Subject complement: The country became independent.
Object complement: Most people considered Picasso a genius.
Polysemy
The term complement has many other uses, see complement.
References
Quirk, Randolph & Sidney Greenbaum & Geoffrey Leech & Jan Svartvik. 1985. A comprehensive grammar of the English language. London: Longman.
