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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