Geez, you're really making me earn my money! We usually think of the finite verb as the workhorse of the clause, and the noun as the actor. Many of the other words just add color (not to mention prepositions and conjunctions - please). The old

First, "Paint it black." can only be a sentence as a command. In this case, it is and understood "you." (You) paint it black. I am telling you to do this. As far as I know, this is really an expression from the Rolling Stones

Thus spake Matthias: They are adverbs functioning in the sentences as object complements. Note that the complement in the last sentence is "full of holes". I am not sure if you would call "dry" an adverb in this case. Could it

the oblique allusion in lieu of the frontal attack filted: If it were feasible, would you reform any aspect of the English language other than spelling? If so, what specific changes would you make? I'd like to be able to do this type of thing