Lesson 32 (pp. 55–57)
Explanation.— The line that separates made from queen slants toward the object complement to show that queen belongs to the object.
Analysis.— Queen is an objective complement completing made and belonging to Victoria; made Victoria queen is the complete predicate.
| 2. | Someone has called the eye the window of the soul. |
| 3. | Destiny had made Mr. Churchill a schoolmaster. |
| 4. | President Eisenhower chose John Foster Dulles Secretary of State. |
| 5. | After a break of sixty years in the ducal line of the English nobility, James I created the worthless Villiers Duke of Buckingham. |
Explanation.— As may be used simply to introduce an objective complement.
| 7. | Ophelia and Polonius thought Hamlet really insane. |
| 8. | The President and the Senate appoint certain men ministers to foreign courts. |
| 9. | Shylock would have struck Jessica dead beside him. |
| 10. | Custom renders the feelings blunt and callous. |
| 11. | Socrates styled beauty a short-lived tyranny. |
| 12. | Madame de Staël calls beautiful architecture frozen music. |
| 13. | They named the state New York from the Duke of York. |
| 14. | Henry the Great consecrated the Edict of Nantes as the very ark of the constitution. |
Mary arrived safely.
Caution.— Be careful to distinguish an adjective complement from an adverb modifier.
Explanation.— We here wish to tell the condition of Mary on her arrival, and not the manner of her arriving. My head feels bad (is in a bad condition, as perceived by the sense of feeling). The sun shines bright (is bright, as perceived by its shining).
When the idea of being is prominent in the verb, as in the examples above, you see that the adjective, and not the adverb, follows.
