COMPLEMENTS AND OBJECT SONG
To find complements and objects we need a verb (what kind of verb?)
An ACTION VERB or a LINKING VERB!
An ACTION VERB or a LINKING VERB
If you have an action verb with no object (you don’t see one)
Then don’t you worry, son, because there doesn’t have to be one.
If you have a linking verb, then son, what are you thinking
You HAVE TO HAVE a complement if that ol’ verb is linking!
LINKING VERB:
LINK will fight the PREDator, which one’s gonna live?
We need a predicate adjective or a predicate nominative!
Link to PREDICATE ADJECTIVE OR PREDICATE NOMINATIVE!
PREDICATE ADJECTIVE OR PREDICATE NOMINATIVE
BUT WATCH OUT! for prepositional phrases!
ACTION VERB:
We’ve got an action verb which we found upon inspection
You’ll see ACTION on the dance floor if you play some One DIRECTion!
DIRECT OBJECT or INDIRECT OBJECT (Action)
DIRECT OBJECT or INDIRECT OBJECT (Action)
DIRECT OBJECT ‘cause that’s what makes you beautiful
BUT WATCH OUT! for prepositional phrases!
TO FIND DIRECT OBJECTS IT DON’T NEED TO BE DISTURBING
JUST FIND THE ACTION VERB AND THEN ASK WHAT IT IS VERBING!
We’re DIGGING.... We’re digging HOLES (direct object)
We’re SAVING.... We’re saving SOULS (direct object)
We’re COOKING... We’re cooking SOUP (direct object)
We’re SHOVELING.... We’re Shoveling DIRECT OBJECTS AND INDIRECT OBJECTS!
TO FIND THE INDIRECT OBJECT YOU KNOW WHAT LIES IN STORE
JUST FIND THE ACTION VERB AND ASK WHO ARE WE VERBING FOR
but WATCH OUT for prepositional phrases!
We’re cooking mom some soup. Who we cooking for? MOM
We’re digging Tom a hole. Who we digging for? TOM
We’re throwing you a party! We’re planting you a garden!
But don’t plant the garden for me, because I beg your pardon!
WATCH OUT for prepositional phrases!
DIRECT OBJECTS OR INDIRECT OBJECTS!
LINK cuts with his sword a slanty line (a slanty line)
ACTION should be vertical every single time