Writing their exam

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Disabled_girl  #450882  Sat, 08 Dec 07 03:54 AM
Hiya!
The professor whatched his students writing their exam. Is it correct to say that writing their exam is a object complement? Can a gerund phrase be an object complement???

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pieanne  #451032  Sat, 08 Dec 07 03:41 PM

"His students" is the direct object complement.

You could rephrase the sentence as "he watched his students as they were writing their exam", so it's a kind of apposition to students

  
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Disabled_girl  #451153  Sun, 09 Dec 07 12:56 AM
I'm doing a take home exam, and this is a question :
The professor watched his student writing their exam.

This sentence demonstrate
a) a transitive pattern + object complement
b) a transitive pattern + indirect object
c) a transitive pattern with no other complement.

As i'm not sure as what is acting the grunf phrase here.  Is it a object complement, as it does complement the object (student).

Thanks all for your hepl!
  
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