Notes 1. "People" is the subject of the infinitive "laugh," and the infinitive phrase "all the people laugh" is the DO of "made." 2. With students working at Level Five, I would also accept "porker concealed" as a noun absolute functioning as a direct object. 3. In the meaning here, we never use the "to be," but the easiest way to deal with this construction is still to consider it as an infinitive phrase "Call that *to be* a pig's squeak." Note that "call" here means "consider" and we would say "Do you consider that to be a pig's squeak!?" Thus "that" is the subject, and "squeak" is the predicate noun of the ellipsed infinitive, and the infinitive phrase functions as the direct object of "call." Although some people will consider this to be an unwarranted stretch, I still prefer it rather than introducing the traditional concepts of objective and subjective complements. 4. "Him" is the subject of "stop," and the infinitive phrase is the DO of "make." 5. This is the same construction as in note 4, above.
From The KISS Approach to Grammar http://www.pct.edu/courses/evavra/KISS.htm |
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