Level: Intermediate / Upper-intermediate
This subject and object complement quiz tests your ability to recognise these parts of a sentence.
Subject and object complements define or rename subjects and direct objects.
Multiple Choice
Decide whether the sentence has a subject complement (predicate adjective / predicate nominative) or an object complement.
A subject complement is a word or group of words that follows a linking verb and provides additional information about the subject of the sentence. This has an adjective ('happy') that describes or qualifies the subject ('She') = Subject + Linking Verb + Predicate Adjective.
An object complement is a word or group of words that provides more information about the direct object in a sentence, in this case the direct object being 'him' and the information being 'genius' = Subject + Action Verb + Direct Object + Object Complement.
This has an adjective ('delicious') that describes or qualifies the subject ('the meal') = Subject + Linking Verb + Predicate Adjective.
This has a noun ('musician') that renames or identifies the subject = Subject + Linking Verb + Predicate Nominative.
'Interesting' describes the direct object 'book' = Subject + Action Verb + Direct Object + Object Complement.
The direct object is 'John' and 'class president' is the further information about him = Subject + Action Verb + Direct Object + Object Complement.
This has a noun ('lecturer') that renames or identifies the subject = Subject + Linking Verb + Predicate Nominative.
'Max' describes the direct object 'dog' = Subject + Action Verb + Direct Object + Object Complement.
'Confused' describes the direct object 'her' = Subject + Action Verb + Direct Object + Object Complement.
This has an adjective ('beautiful') that describes or qualifies the subject = Subject + Linking Verb + Predicate Adjective.
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