Object

• force: The president's '05 defense budget supports the ongoing defense transformation process under way at the Pentagon and its efforts to modernize forces.

• system: They backed measures being taken and planned to more fully integrate and modernize the system.

• agriculture: He further stressed that modernizing agriculture by adopting GM crops will solve the problems of farmers in India.

Present participle complement

• age: Railroads in the new EU member states require investment to modernize aging infrastructure and renew rolling stock.

Modifying Another Word

• newly: A 4 bedroom contemporary style detached house, newly modernized which will accommodate up to 9 persons.

• also: It also modernized the legal tools investigators needed to conduct more effective investigations, he said.

• now: The buildings were old military gunboat storages which were now modernized and used as?

Infinitive complement

• provide: All guest rooms have been recently re-appointed and modernized to provide a maximum level of comfort throughout your stay.

Preposition: in

• year: These relationships have been updated and modernized in recent years, in keeping with the new circumstances of the 21st Century.