Johanna, 

I noticed this before and didn't comment then, but why do you call "become" an intransitive rather than a linking verb?  They differ considerably, including in their complementation.

Herb


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From: Assembly for the Teaching of English Grammar on behalf of Johanna Rubba
Sent: Fri 10/29/2004 7:57 PM
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Subject: Re: to become you truly are the person?
 
Once again, the clause "who you truly are" is not the object of 
anything. It is the subject complement of the infinitive "to become". 
Objects appear only after transitive verbs; "become" is intransitive.

Maybe Wanda meant to say "complement" instead of "object". It's easy to 
confuse the two terms, but "complement" is more general.
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