him= direct object president= objective complement
[The objective complement is in boldface type] "The trial ended because the defendant was adjudged insane." "In 1796, John Adams was elected President of the United States."An objective complement is a noun or an adjective phrase that is used to further clarify some object in a sentence. It describes or renames. It is used to provide finishing information to either the direct object or the object of the preposition.
There is no linking verb in the sentence "The people elected him president in 1800." Elected is a regular verb.Linking verbs do not express an action and connect the subject to a subject complement. Example: Learning is fun. Isis a linking verb connecting the subject (learning) to the complement (fun).
Jason was elected the class president.The cake is grandma's recipe.We are Miranda's daughters.
There are two ways that nouns function as complements:Subject Complement: A subject complement is the adjective, noun, or pronoun that follows a linking verb that renames or defines in some way the subject. Don't mistake a subject complement for a direct object, only linking verbs can have subject complements.Margaret was elected class president. (Margaret = president)The puppy that we adopted is a beagle. (puppy = beagle)Object Complement: An object complement is a noun, pronoun, or adjective which follows a direct object and renames it or tells what the direct object has become. It is most often used with verbs of creating or nominating such as make, name, elect, paint, call, etc.They elected Margaretclass president. (Margaret = president)We named the puppy Spot. (puppy = Spot)
"Barack Obama"
The general who led the coup usurped the office of the duly elected president. :)
A complement is a word or phrase that is necessary in order to complete the meaning.Three functions of a noun (or noun phrase) as a complement are a subject complement, an object complement, or the object of a preposition.A subject complement (also called a predicate nominative) is the noun or a pronoun following a linking verb that restates the subject. The subject of a linking verb is or becomes the object.Example: Jim was elected class president. (Jim = class president)An object complement is a noun or a pronoun that follows and restates the direct object.Examples:We met the new neighbors, the Smiths. (neighbors = Smiths)We met the Smiths, the new neighbors. (Smiths = new neighbors)The object of a preposition is a complement when it is needed to identify a noun or a pronoun in the sentence.Examples:The boy in blue has the tickets. (Which boy? The one in blue.)That boy in blue has the tickets. (Not a complement. The boy is indicated by gesture of the speaker, the prepositional phrase 'in blue' is not essential to identify the boy.)
William McKinley was elected President in 1900.
When you are not talking about a specific president.Many countries in the world have a president.A president would be elected at the next meeting of the board.
THE president is elected by the electrol college. Congress is elected by the people
President Barack Obama was elected in 2008 and re-elected in 2012.
He is elected in conjunction with the person running as president .