They choose Bill captain – the completing noun – president, Harrison, captain – is called objective complement; it is also called factitive object, predicate objective, secondary object.
Note: that the objective complement follows the direct object.
A noun is in the objective case when it is in apposition with another noun in the objective case, as We took the old route, our childhood haunt, in which haunt is in apposition with the direct object route and is, therefore, in the objective case.
A noun is in the objective case when it is used to denote distance, measure, space, time, manner, value, weight and the like as they stralled a few blocks, she stayed a month. The wall is three yards high. It weights ten pounds. She drove full speed, in which the italicized words are the objects of prepositions understood , as they stralled for a few blocks, She stayed for a month, The wall is high to the extent of three yards, It weights to ten pounds, She drow at full speed.
This construction is called adverbial adjunct or adverbial modifier or
objective of weight or measure and so on♦ .
Do not confuse this construction with cognate object. This objective having strictly adverbial nature where as the cognate is a noun repetition of the verb idea.
A noun is in the objective case when it is used as object of a preposition, the preposition showing from what word or words the idea starts and to what word or words it is directed, as He is going to Boston, They arrived from the East, The boy is at the circus, in which Boston and East and circus are in the objective case, objects respectively of to, from, at.
A noun is in the objective case when it is used as subject of the infinitive, as They expected the girls to be interested, in which girls in subject of the infinitive to be interested.
Note: that they expected the girls. That is a completely different idea. The direct object of the verb expected is the infinitive phrases the girls to be interested as a unit; separation of one part of the phrase from another is impossible if the exact meaning of the sentence is to be retained.
A noun is in the objective case when it is used as indirect object, that is an object indicating the person to or for on be half of whom something is done, as pass Mary the Mary, Telegraph, Blaine our terms, tell the boy a story. Do Harry this favour, in which italicized nouns are indirect objects with nouns are to or for understood before them.
But the preposition may be expressed before an indirect object, as Buy a car for the boy, Give my best wishes to your sister, Find a position for Mary.
When a position is understood before an indirect object, the indirect object always precedes the direct object, the preposition must be expressed. The verbs after which the indirect object is to be expected are those denoting getting, giving, providing, tening as, allow, ask, buy, deny, find , give, grant, hand, make, obtain, pass, pay, procure, promise, provide, secure, send, telegraph, telephone, ten, write, and a few others, after ask , it should be noted. The indirect object may be governed by the preposition of, as We asked the principal no favors or We asked
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