(c) Verbs of naming or calling; as, “We do not hesitate to pronounce them a brave, a wise, an honest, and a useful body.”—Macaulay.
(d) The verbs feel, find, leave, prove, see; as, “He had never seen her so radiant, so young.”—J. L. Allen. “Chaucer, like Dante, found his native tongue a dialect and left it a language.”—Lowell.
(e) Some intransitive verbs are completed in this way, especially when the direct object is a reflexive personal pronoun; as, “They shouted themselves hoarse.” “She cried herself sick.” These sentences mean—“They made themselves hoarse by shouting”; “she made herself sick by crying.”
Introductory Word.—After some verbs usage puts in the word as or for before the objective complement, using it merely as an introductory word; thus, “I respected him as a sound and accurate scholar.”—De Quincey.
“No harmless thing that breathed,
Footed or winged, but knew him for a friend.”
—Aldrich.
When these sentences are changed to the passive, the introductory word is usually retained before the subjective complement.
Note.—After as the participle may take the place of an adjective; as, “I consider him as having lost his right.” The participle has here the same use that the adjective destitute has in the expression destitute of his right.
Position of the Objective Complement.—It usually follows the direct object, but the adjective so used is sometimes placed next to the verb, and the noun may, to render it emphatic, be placed at the beginning of the sentence; as, “Grape shot will sweep clear all streets.”—Carlyle. “A perpetual fountain of good sense Dryden calls Chaucer.”—Lowell.