S V OC
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rough machine translation ...
[ Eng=>Jpn ]
Sometimes an S+V+C sentence is imbedded in a longer, more complex sentence in such a way that its verb drops out and the subject becomes the object of the new, longer sentence.
Subject | Verb | Object | Complement | extra = plus a |
Mai | dyed | her hair | brown | in junior high school. |
You | must keep | your room | clean | every day. |
Prof. Ueda | found | the book | interesting. | . |
The third sentence can also be written:
Take a piece of writing, perhaps something you yourself have written, and underline all the verb phrases. Then try to write a basic sentence for each such phrase and identify the pattern used.