English Grammar Drills

172 Verb Phrases
1. I owed my cousin a big favor.
2. The real estate agent found my parents a terrific apartment.
3. The agent handed my parents the apartment key.
4. The music teacher taught Janet a new piano sonata today.
5. The wizard granted the princess three wishes.
6. Please serve the guests the first course.
7. The owner very kindly saved our friends the last big table.
8. Throw George a towel, will you?
9. The boss promised Dorothy the first new opening.
10. Would you read everybody the message again, please?
11. John bought his kids a playground set.
12. We prepared the new vice president a revised organization chart.
13. Please give Mrs. Stoddard our best wishes.
14. We ordered the entire staff a catered lunch.
15. Ship the office in Dayton the new routers.
Let us now look at each type of object complement in more detail.
2. Object noun phrase complement
The term complement refers to a noun phrase or adjective that follows an object and renames
that object. That is, the object (Obj) and the object complement must refer to the same person
or thing. The object complement can be a noun phrase complement (NP Comp) or an adjective
complement (Adj Comp).
Obj
NP
Comp
Ralph considers his boss a fool.
Obj
Adj
Comp
Ralph considers his boss foolish.