SAT Grammar Questions

WasatchWriter
Sun, 18 Jan 2015 21:01:49 +0000

Elect for is not the idiom. You might be thinking of “run for.” A person runs for president. A person is simply elected president. This is an example of an [object complement](Object Complement: Explanation and Examples). It follows the same pattern as “We named him Bob” or “Movies make me sad.”