{"id":52056,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/what-is-the-function-of-the-complement-shown-in-parentheses-in-this-sentence-we-named-our-australian-shepherd-allie"},"modified":"2017-08-16T12:39:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T12:39:42","slug":"what-is-the-function-of-the-complement-shown-in-parentheses-in-this-sentence-we-named-our-australian-shepherd-allie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-is-the-function-of-the-complement-shown-in-parentheses-in-this-sentence-we-named-our-australian-shepherd-allie\/","title":{"rendered":"What is the function of the complement shown in parentheses in this sentence &#8220;We named our (Australian shepherd) Allie&#8221; ?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Australian Shepherd&#8221; is the Direct Object in the sentence.<\/p>\n<p>Subject of sentence: WeVerb : namedDirect Object : shepherdModifiers of Direct Object: our AustralianObject Complement: Allie (Proper Noun)<\/p>\n<p>[I would consider just &#8220;shepherd&#8221; to be the D.O., because there are different kinds of shepherd dogs. What kind of shepherd dog? A German shepherd; an Australian shepherd.]<\/p>\n<p>The Original Answer is correct, but perhaps somewhat terse: subject + Factitive Verb + Object + Objective Complement\/Noun Complement\/Factitive Object<\/p>\n<p>Original Explanation: We named OUR AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD Allie. OUR AUSTRALIAN SHEPHERD == Object (not complement)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Australian Shepherd&#8221; is the Direct Object in the sentence. Subject of sentence: WeVerb : namedDirect Object : shepherdModifiers of Direct Object: our AustralianObject Complement: Allie (Proper Noun) [I would consider just &#8220;shepherd&#8221; to be the D.O., because there are different <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/what-is-the-function-of-the-complement-shown-in-parentheses-in-this-sentence-we-named-our-australian-shepherd-allie\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52056\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}