practice makes perfect: what is the grammar phenomenon ?
e.g. Practice makes perfect.
In this sentence, the adjective word 'perfect' occurs behind a verb. I know it is not a decoration of 'makes' , and I know what does this mean. But I want to know the jargon of this phenomenon.
Could anyone help? Thanks a lot.
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It's an old, fixed saying and that grammatical construction is not used in modern English. The meaning in standard modern English is: "Practice makes a thing (e.g. a skill) perfect.
I presume that you are familiar with the standard forms used for the causative sense of "make", but if not, please ask.
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