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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A noun, adjective, or pronoun serving as a complement to a verb and qualifying its direct object, as governor in They elected him governor.
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sarra commented on the word objective complement
'The object also may need added words to complete the meaning of the predicate. Such words are called objective complements. They elected Henry captain. He painted the house white.'
— Henry Wyman Holmes, Composition and Rhetoric, p340
November 2, 2009