Dear all,
 
I found Martha's comments on the latest sentence to be extremely helpful. May I add one more sentence for analysis?
 
"I let her take comfort in the long odds against me."
 
Is it right to say that "let" is the main verb, "her" is the direct object, and "take comfort in the long odds against me" is an object complement (with internal structure we can ignore)? My impulse is to change the sentence structure to 
 
"I allowed her to take comfort in the long odds against me" 
 
to shore up my sense that "take comfort..." is an infinitive phrase, but this feels like a dodge to me.
 
Thanks,
Natalie 

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