The complement

The subject complement of a simple sentence:

 comes after the verb

 is either
- a noun or 'noun-like thing', or
- an adjective (as in the sentence, Elephants are big.)
 refers to the same person thing or idea as the subject.

This type of clause uses a special type of verb, a linking verb. the commonest linking verb
is be. Others become and seem:

VERB COMPLEMENT
SUBJECT
She are became a freelance business writer.
This explanation may not seem very attractive.

• What is a Verb?

• A verb is a part of speech that expresses existence, action, or occurrence. This is the most
important part of a sentence. A sentence can have only one word as long as that word is a verb.
Verbs constitute, singly or in a phrase, a minimal predicate in a clause govern the number and
types of other constituents which may occur in the clause, and in inflectional languages, may be
inflected for tense, aspect, voice, modality, or agreement with other constituents in person,
number, or grammatical gender.

• COMPLEMENTS :

• COMPLEMENTS A complement is a word or a group of words that completes the

meaning of a verb. Two kinds of complements are: Subject complements and objects of
verbs. A subject complement is a word or group of words that follows a linking verb and
renames or describes the subject. (A linking verb links the subject with a noun or an
adjective that tells more about it.