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They elected him President.
They appointed him chief in the office.
I’ll raise my kid a Catholic.
The parents christened the boy Paul.
They deliberately selected Elizabeth as an ideal mother-substitute.
D. Verbs denoting motion, movement to a different position or state (to bring, to carry, to deliver, to
fing, to kick, to march, to pick, to put, to send, to tear, to toss, etc.).
She pulled the drawer open.
I tore the letter open.
Christin kicked the door open.
The girl clicked her bag shut.
Most of the verbs in group II have a very general vague meaning, they are often incomplete without the
adjective or noun denoting the result of the action. Therefore they are very closely connected with it, forming a
set expression:
to make
somebody
something
crazy (mad, happy, important, famous, an eager listener, restless, stunned)
invisible (concrete, interesting, handy, certain, clear)
to make oneself agreable (comfortable, cosy)
to set
somebody
something
free
straight
to drive mad (crazy, desperate)
to leave somebody stunned (doubtful, weak, indifferent, blind, crippled)
to keep
somebody
something
busy
clean (handy)
to consider
somebody
something
responsible (famous, big, great, unique, a master, charming, pleasing, awful)
as possible (extreme, ridiculous, dreadful, a nuisance)
to render
somebody
something
spellbound (speechless, motionless, blind, dumb.)
useless (hopeless, unimportant)
to have
somebody
something
as a teacher
clear (right, definite)
to count
somebody
something
an enemy (a friend, as the greatest man)
as useless (as ugly, as most attractive)
The absolute nominative constructions
§ 130. These constructions are called ‘absolute’ because they are not dependent on any other part of the
including sentence, though they cannot be used without it, as they lack a finite verb form and thus have no
predicate.
From the point of view of their transformational possibility, absolute constructions fall into two types, verbal
and non-verbal ones.
I. Constructions with verbals as their second part. When transformed into