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Hi, Paul

Refer to sentence :

There are many sight in Kuala Lumpure to keep tourists interested.
The word" interested" is adjective . Why it stands after nown " tourists"?.

Thank Paul

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Hi Mike

We use "interested" this way because we're not talking about "interested tourists", but keeping tourists in general interested:

(1) There are many sights in Kuala Lumpur to keep tourists interested.
(2) The interested tourists went on a tour of down-town Kuala Lumpur.

In (1), we understand that there are lots of sights in KL that tourists in general will find interesting. Grammatically, "tourists" is the direct object of "keep" and interested" is an adjective functioning as objective predicative complement of "keep".

In (2), "interested" is also an adjective - it's describing a certain group of tourists; not just tourists in general, but only the "interested" ones. Grammatically, "interested" is not a complement here, but a modifier of "tourists".

Can you see the difference?

PaulM