Introducing English Linguistics

parts function in many ways as a clause, or what some theorists, such as
Aarts (1992), refer to as a small clause:
Her own enthusiasm for the subject is 
infectious
But because no overt predicator occurs, more descriptively oriented gram-
mars refer to the object and object complement as separate clause func-
tions, realized by phrases, within a clause.
Like direct and indirect objects, objects and object complements
require specific kinds of verbs, such as find and consider in the examples
below, capable of taking three arguments:
I find it 
fascinating. 
(ICE-GB S1A-002 035)
Although she turns up for the interview her customary peaked-capped
urchin self, she is worried that her feminist interpreters will consider