OOPS!  The first line of the sentence below should have "DO-OC," not DO-OP."

Haste, etc.  Mea Culpa.

JVB

At 08:26 PM 9/12/98 -0400, you wrote:
>You could set free the animals, or set the animals free.
>
>A test of this being a variant of the traditional DO-OP order is that the
>insertion of the "to be" between the DO and the OC is a strong indicator of
>the sentence pattern.
>
>JVB
>
>At 05:46 PM 9/12/98 -0500, you wrote:
>>In the last few days, I have been seeing the statement, "The
>>Congress will make public the report." My question is: what is the
>>function of the word "public" in that position. If the sentence stated,
>>"The Congress will make the report public,"  I would then think "public"
>>to be considered the Object Complement. Does/can the Object Complement
>>ever come before the Direct Object? If not, what function name would be
>>given to "public" in the first instance? Can "make public" be considered
>>a verb phrase? If not a verb phrase, following this thought, can any one
>>think of another verb where the OC can be shifted in this manner? When
>>anyone has time, I would appreciate your thoughts on this. Gordon
>>
>>Gordon Rives Carmichael
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>>Developmental Studies, English As A Second Language, University of
>>Central Texas and Central Texas College
>>
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