Describes a ‘state’ as in, ‘Maire is tall.’ or ‘Mandip felt ill.’ If no action is transferring from the subject to the object, the word is called a complement.

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Like the subject, the object is usually a noun (‘the piano’) or a noun phrase, (‘the big, black piano’). Verbs that take objects describe some kind of action rather than a state of being.