Mary,
 
  Why do you need the category "objective
complement"? One of the problems of
pedagogical grammar is that the grammarians
and teachers make it too complicated by
introducing unneeded terms.
    Note, by the way, your use of the passive:
"Isn't this construction called...." The
questions are "called by whom?" and "for
what reason"?
 
>>> Mary Tyler Knowles
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Subject:      Re: Sentence Diagramming
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>In "He caused her to do it" you have an
infinitive phrase with its own
>subject (her).  The phrase is the direct object
of "caused."
 
Ian't this construction called the "objective
complement"?
 
Mary Tyler Knowles ([log in to unmask])
The Winsor School. Boston, MA
"I read; therefore, I am."