OCs only go with selected verbs…like consider,elect,choose….

example:

We consider Rei our mother.

Rei-DO

mother-OC

example of a sentence without OC:

I brought wine for our picnic at the zoo.

wine-DO

“An object complement is an noun, pronoun, or adjective which follows a direct object in a sentence and renames it or tells what the direct object has become. It is most often used with verbs of creating or nominating such as make, name, elect, paint, call, etc.

“We know there is a difference between calling Mayor Williams and calling Williams mayor or painting a red door and painting a door red. When the word follows the direct object and it tells what the direct object has become, it is the object complement. Sometimes people call it an objective complement. The italicized words on this page are object complements.”

The italics didn’t come out. In the above examples, “calling Williams mayor,” “mayor” is the object/objective complement, and “painting a door red,” “red” is the object complement because both words follow the direct objects and renames the direct objects or tells what the direct objects have become. “Painting the town red (with “red” being the object complement) is another example similar to “painting a door red.” And other examples of object complements following direct objects are “She named her daughter Sarah.” “They called the wind Mariah.” He made his brother-in-law treasurer.” “We elected her president.”

But the sentence “He painted the red door,” for example, has a direct object (door), but the “red” in this sentence is not an object complement, but is an adjective that modifies the direct object “door.”

Got it?