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** (Note: This seems to be the only example which has a more natural-sounding sentence that would be used in everyday conversation. ''"He had a strange dream."'')
*''He walked their walk and talked their talk.'' (i.e., He walked and talked as they did.)
*''He smiled a charming smile.'' (i.e., He smiled, and his smile was charming.)
*''He danced a cheerful dance.'' (i.e., He danced, and his dance was cheerful.)
In some of these cases, the cognate object allows for a simpler construction; in others, it may simply be chosen for [[idiom]]atic or [[rhetoric]]al reasons. In general, the cognate object's modifiers are in some sense modifying the verb: for example, ''He slept a troubled sleep'' tells how he slept. Semantically, many of these verbs denote modes of expression (laugh, smile) and bodily actions or motions (dance, walk, sleep). <ref>{{cite book
| last = Levin
| first = Beth
| authorlink = Beth Levin
| title = English Verb Classes and Alternations: A Preliminary Investigation
| publisher = The University of Chicago Press
| ___location = Chicago and London
| pages = 95-6
}}</ref>
==See also==
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