Park sang joon Posted 10 years ago
Grammar
An objective-complement of 'think'
The protagonist is one of royal family members of Amber and a sorcerer.
He is now talking at table to Coral, a daughter of the prime minister from a neighboring country Begma.
She knows he is in a great peril and wants help help him keep from the peril.
"I have something of a crush on you. I know it sounds sily, butit's true. When I saw some of the recent reports and realized that you might be in great danger, I decided I would help you if I could."
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I stared at her. Then I raised my wineglass to her and took a drink.
"You are . . . amazing," I said. I couldn't think of anything else to say. It was either an on-the-sopt fabrication or it was ture. If it were ture, it was somewhat pathetic; if not, I thought it a rather clever bit of quick thinking, calculated to hit me in that wonderfully vulnerable place, the ego. She deserved either my sympathy or my wariest admiration.
["Sign of Chaos" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I'd like to know if "it" is a objective-complement of "thought."
Thank you in advance for your help.
He is now talking at table to Coral, a daughter of the prime minister from a neighboring country Begma.
She knows he is in a great peril and wants help help him keep from the peril.
"I have something of a crush on you. I know it sounds sily, butit's true. When I saw some of the recent reports and realized that you might be in great danger, I decided I would help you if I could."
..........................
I stared at her. Then I raised my wineglass to her and took a drink.
"You are . . . amazing," I said. I couldn't think of anything else to say. It was either an on-the-sopt fabrication or it was ture. If it were ture, it was somewhat pathetic; if not, I thought it a rather clever bit of quick thinking, calculated to hit me in that wonderfully vulnerable place, the ego. She deserved either my sympathy or my wariest admiration.
["Sign of Chaos" of The Great Book of Amber by Roger Zelazny]
I'd like to know if "it" is a objective-complement of "thought."
Thank you in advance for your help.
Top answer
I would say that "it" is the object of "think". "a rather clever bit of quick thinking" would be the objective complement.
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I would say that "it" is the object of "think". "a rather clever bit of quick thinking" would be the objective complement.
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I'd also like to know if "calculated" is an objective complement of "think."
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park sang joonI'd also like to know if "calculated" is an objective complement of "think.""calculated to hit me in that wonderfully vulnerable place, the ego" modifies "quick thinking".
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park sang joon An object-complement of 'think'"think" is a verb. It can only have a verb complement.
Only an object can have an object complement, so it's the object "it" which has an object complement, as already explained above.
You asked a question where the presuppositions are wrong, as if you had asked "W
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