Analyse the following sentence in terms of SPOCA : "Police caught the thief red-handed".
In 'Police caught the thief red-handed', 'Police' is Subject (S), 'caught' is Predicator (P), 'the thief' is Object (O), and 'red-handed' is an adjectival Object Complement…
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Analyse the following sentence in terms of SPOCA :
"Police caught the thief red-handed".
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In 'Police caught the thief red-handed', 'Police' is Subject (S), 'caught' is Predicator (P), 'the thief' is Object (O), and 'red-handed' is an adjectival Object Complement (C) describing the state of the thief when caught -> S P O C.
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