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Complexes with the Participle II
Participle II forms three complexes: Complex Object (The
Objective
Predicative), Complex Subject (The Subjective Predicative) and The
Nominative Absolute Construction.
I. Complex Object (Objective Predicative)
It is used after transitive verbs followed by a direct object which is
expressed by
a noun or a
pronoun:
to believe, to consider, to feel, to find,
to get, to have, to hear, to see, to keep, to leave, to like, to want, to make,
etc.; set phrases: won’t like, won’t have, should/would like.
E.g.
1. Soames felt
his attention caught.
2. On arriving at
the cottage she found it locked.
3. I had
not heard the matter mentioned.
4. I have
my hair cut every month.
5. He has had
his house painted this summer.
II. Complex Subject (Subjective Predicative)
It is used after the Passive of the verbs: to find, to consider, to hear, to
see, to make, to leave, etc.
E.g.
1.
He was found
engaged in a conversation with a charming girl.
2.
He is constantly seen
drunk in the mid of the afternoon.
III. The Nominative Absolute Construction
It may be non-prepositional and prepositional (prep.
with). It’s
function is to describe
appearance, behavior or inner state of a person. This
construction is generally rendered in Russian by means of an adverbial
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clause. It is used in the function of an adverbial modifier of time, cause,
attendant
circumstances, condition.
E.g.
1. In the
library Diana,
her face flushed, talked to a young dramatist.
2. I lay in a big chair, talking now & then, listening sometimes
with
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