Indirect object versus prepositional complement
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complement | American Dictionary

complement
verb[ T ]
us/ˈkɑm·pləˌment/
to help make something or someone more complete or effective:
She used photographs to complement the text of the news story.

complementary

adjectiveus/ˌkɑm·pləˈmen·tə·ri, -tri/
This ancient Chinese therapy is part of the complementary treatment program for pain.
complement
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkɑm·plə·mənt/
A complement is a number of people or things that makes something complete:
We had a full complement of reporters and photographers along.
grammar
A complement is part of a word or phrase that completes the predicate (= the part of a sentence that gives information about the subject), as “nothing” in “They told him nothing.”

Examples of complement

complement
The formula is true, it is masterly, but it needs complementing by one that seeks to give a description starting from personal presence.
The present section complements those that have gone before it.
Second, the fleet exhibition also was the appropriate centerpiece because it necessarily complemented the vast industrial and scientific displays.
Psychosocial factors make an independent contribution to pathology that complements our understanding of the relationship between biomedical factors and ageing.
Results from this study, thus, complemented and extended the findings of those reports.
We would like to emphasize that total health inequality complements group level measures; it does not replace them.
Major problems might lie ahead for the" enabling" health service schemes, if they were not complemented by new local authority back-up services.
In each case these observations were complemented by interviews held with the participants.
A clear recognition now exists that counter-trade complements the more normal methods of trade finance.
Where the family's labour was complemented by annually hired farm servants, all were underemployed together in the slack seasons.
The late talkers in this sample were also delayed in their ability to use propositional complements.
The children's mean length of utterance, total words uttered, lexical diversity, and use of propositional complements were assessed.
Each speaker's use of psychological state words and propositional complements was calculated as a percentage of total utterances.
A dual of a set expression is obtained from by complementing all primitives and changing every to and vice versa.
Traditional multivariate statistical analyses were complemented by a relationship-based approach utilizing latent class analysis.
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