Complex object consists of a NOUN in the common case or a PRONOUN in the objective case +P.I, forming a syntactic unit. It is used:
- After verbs of perception (F.e. We were listening to the train arriving)
- After verbs to find, to catch, to discover (F.e. We caught our cat steeling meat)
- With verbs of causative meaning to start, to set, to keep, to leave, to get, to have (F.e. Don’t keep me waiting;Your words set/left me thinking)
- Occasionally with verbs to want, to like (F.e. I don’t want you talking back to me)