(1) "When should this scientific education be commenced?"
(2) "This scientific education should be commenced when?"
(3) "What wouldst thou have a good great man obtain?"
(4) "Thou wouldst have a good great man obtain what?"
In the imperative sentence, the subject (_you_, _thou_, or _ye_) is in most cases omitted, and is to be supplied; as, "[You] behold her single in the field."
Name the subject and the predicate in each of the following sentences:--
1. The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves.
2. Hence originated their contempt for terrestrial distinctions.
3. Nowhere else on the Mount of Olives is there a view like this.
4. In the sands of Africa and Arabia the camel is a sacred and precious gift.
7. Listen, on the other hand, to an ignorant man.
8. What must have been the emotions of the Spaniards!
9. Such was not the effect produced on the sanguine spirit of the general.
10. What a contrast did these children of southern Europe present to the Anglo-Saxon races!
342. All the elements of the simple sentence are as follows:--
The subject and predicate have been discussed.
[Sidenote: _Definitions. Direct Object_.]
(1) The DIRECT OBJECT is that word or expression which answers the question _who_ or _what_ placed after the verb; or the direct object names that toward which the action of the predicate is directed.
It must be remembered that any verbal may have an object; but for the present we speak of the object of the verb, and by _object_ we mean the _direct_ object.
(2) The INDIRECT OBJECT is a noun or its equivalent used as the modifier of a verb or verbal to name the person or thing for whose benefit an action is performed.
Examples of direct and indirect objects are, direct, "She seldom saw her _course_ at a glance;" indirect, "I give _thee_ this to wear at the collar."
344. A complement is a word added to a verb of incomplete predication to complete its meaning.
Notice that a verb of incomplete predication may be of two kinds,--transitive and intransitive.
The _transitive verb_ often requires, in addition to the object, a word to define fully the action that is exerted upon the object; for example, "Ye call me chief." Here the verb _call_ has an object _me_ (if we leave out _chief_), and means summoned; but _chief_ belongs to the verb, and _me_ here is not the object simply of _call_, but of _call chief_, just as if to say, "Ye _honor me_." This word completing a transitive verb is sometimes called a _factitive object_, or _second object_, but it is a true complement.