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by arora007 » Sat Jan 15, 2011 1:36 am
anything other than the subject is the subject complement,

subject : "His ambition"

subject complement : "is to fly"
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by Jim@Grockit » Mon Jan 17, 2011 12:04 am
mundasingh123 wrote:ï‚· Everyone wanted to go. (direct object)
ï‚· His ambition is to fly. (subject complement)
Whats Subject complement ?
Subject complement is the thing on the other side of a form of "to be" -- basically the other side of the verbal equation X = Y, where X is the subject, "is" is the "=", and Y is the subject complement.

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