Re: painting the door green

Den 24. aug. 2008 kl. 18.24 skreiv René Uittenbogaard:

> I'm looking for the English grammatical term for what is known in
> Dutch as the "bepaling van gesteldheid"
> <http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bepaling_van_gesteldheid>
> http://tinyurl.com/6eaf8p
>
> It is a constituent which is, among others, found in sentences like:
>
> He is painting the door *green*.
> She bought the store *empty*.
> They applauded *the skin off their hands*.
You must be thinking of the predicative. One of the first (of many)
things I have learnt on this list. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Predicative_(adjectival_or_nominal)

LEF

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