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Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–).  The Columbia Guide to Standard American English.  1993.
 
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are grammatical structures that regularly follow verbs and with them make up full predicates. Chief among them are (following transitive verbs) indirect and direct objects and object complements and (following linking verbs) predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives (all of which please see).  1
 
 
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