We do not wish to assert merely that chalk _is_ or _exists_. What we wish
to assert of chalk, is the quality expressed by the adjective _white_. As
_white_ expresses a quality or attribute, we may call it an +Attribute
Complement+.

Using expressions like the following, let the facts given above be drawn
from the class by means of questions.

Grass growing; grass grows; green grass; grass is green.

+DEFINITION.--The _Object Complement of a sentence_ completes the
predicate, and names that which receives the act+.

+DEFINITION.--The _Attribute Complement_ of a sentence completes the
predicate and belongs to the subject+.

The complement with all its modifiers is called the +_Modified
Complement_+.

Analysis and Parsing.

+Model+.--_Fulton invented the first steamboat_.

Fulton | invented | steamboat
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| \ \
\the \first

+Explanation of the Diagram+.--You will see that the line standing for the
_object complement_ is a continuation of the predicate line, and that the