[Grammar] about quasi-complement

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s1. We decorated the tree beautifully.

s2. We decorated the tree beautiful.

Is s2 grammatically right?
I think it is right, if we regard 'beautiful' as a quasi-complement.
But I have rarely seen a sentence like s2.

Thank you in advance.
 
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s1. We decorated the tree beautifully.

s2. We decorated the tree beautiful.

Is s2 grammatically right?
I think it is right, if we regard 'beautiful' as complement.
But I have rarely seen a sentence like s2.

Thank you in advance.

No, it's not correct.
 

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Thank you for your reply.
 

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Is a 'quasi-complement' a complement written about by someone called pseudo :-? :)

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