To view this Lady of the Lake.—Scott.
13. Christians were cast to the lions, but the Christian church grew up a stately and spreading tree.—Mill.
14. The wind was blowing a hurricane.—Page.
15. Two years later, Mexico became independent of Spain, and California was made a Mexican province.
16. Why are we never quite at our ease in the presence of a schoolmaster?—Lamb.
17. A chieftain’s daughter seemed the maid.—Scott.
18. His meat was locusts and wild honey.
CHAPTER XXVII
THE OBJECTIVE COMPLEMENT
Function.—Sometimes an action performed upon an object makes a different thing of that object. Our desire to tell this as briefly as possible has given rise to sentences in which a transitive verb is followed by two complements, one a direct object naming the thing acted upon, and the other an attribute of the direct object telling the outcome of the activity denoted by the verb; as, “By his Sketch Book Irving has made the Hudson a classic river.”