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Object or Complement

For foreign language learners, To find the difference between Object and Complement in one case which is going to discuss below is difficult. Here, I'm trying to discuss the lesson. Object is something done by subject. It refers to an action (done by subject). Complement is to give more information about the verb. There has been a gap between the two (actually) differences. Understand What Transitive and Intransitive Verbs For example: 1. Tina goes home late every day. 2. Tina is drawing a beautiful painting.

How to understand English Sentence or Structure

taken from: red-grey.co.uk Every languages has its own uniqueness as well as English language. In English grammar, structure points to how the group of words combines and builds a full meaningful sentence. All patterns that we found in the structure of English language point to two mainkinds of sentences; Verbal and Nominal sentence . Therefore, the discussion should be based on these two sentences . Sentence Structure 1: Verbal Sentence Verbal Sentence   is a sentence which contains one subject and bare-infinitive . (Notice that bare-infinitive, in this case ( author's terminology ), can be present verb , past form verb and past participle or the third verb (see. Irregular/regular verb). For example : I work ( work =Present verb) I worked ( worked =Past form verb) I have worked ( have + worked =Past participle)