compliment

[Anonymous]

The definition of compliment when used as part of sentence structure.

 

[Tdol]

It's complement:
https://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/complement.html
;-)

 

[sharguar]

It's complement:
https://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/complement.html
;-)

Here's some quotation from above link:

Eg: She sent him the fax. (The sentence is completed by telling us what she sent to him.)

Question:Isn't THE FAX 'indirect object'?

 

[Casiopea]

It's complement:
https://www.usingenglish.com/glossary/complement.html
;-)

Here's some quotation from above link:

Eg: She sent him the fax. (The sentence is completed by telling us what she sent to him.)

Question:Isn't THE FAX 'indirect object'?

She (subject) sent (di-transitive verb) him (indirect object/IO) a fax (direct object/DO).

She sent him a fax. (IO + DO)
She sent a fax to him. (DO + IO)

 

[Francois]

In the same vein.

FRC