A predicative expression (or just predicative) is part of a clause predicate, and is an expression that typically follows a copula or linking verb, e.g...

predicative of the subject) and object complement are employed to denote the predicative expressions (predicative complements), such as predicative adjectives...

predicative expression. In some theories of grammar, the whole expression is on the table may be called a predicate or a verb phrase. The predicative...

the other defines it as only the main content verb or associated predicative expression of a clause. Thus, by the first definition, the predicate of the...

In traditional grammar, a subject complement is a predicative expression that follows a copula (commonly known as a linking verb), which complements the...

grammatical predicate Predicative expression, part of a clause that typically follows a copula (linking verb) Predicative verb, a verb that behaves as a...

adverbial function. An adjunct is not an argument (nor is it a predicative expression), and an argument is not an adjunct. The argument–adjunct distinction...

(subject-copula-predicative expression, e.g. Fred is the plumber) is reversed in a sense, so that one appears to have the order PCS instead (predicative expression-copula-subject...

Noun phrases often function as verb subjects and objects, as predicative expressions, and as complements of prepositions. One NP can be embedded inside...

are functioning just like other predicative expressions, e.g. predicative adjectives (That was good) and predicative nominals (That was the truth). They...

In grammar, an object complement is a predicative expression that follows a direct object of an attributive ditransitive or resultative verb and that complements...

kids are happy", wherein happy is a predicate adjective (see also: Predicative expression, Subject complement); or as an appositive adjective within a noun...

(with present participle: She felt him breathing on her neck.) As a predicative expression in pseudo-cleft sentences of the following type: What I did was...

the weather in March cheese from France with live bacteria As a predicative expression (complement of a copula) The key is under the stone. As an adjunct...

it as a "predicate nominal over the subject" (as in the article Predicative expression); but all would agree that it is not an object since became is not...

modifies the noun, "shortage." Adverbs can sometimes be used as predicative expressions; in English, this applies especially to adverbs of location: Your...

pronoun Phrasal verb Phrase Phrase structure grammar Plural Predicate Predicative expression Preposition and postposition Pronoun Grammatical relation Restrictiveness...

the être auxiliary - the meaning (and construction) is that of a predicative expression in that case. Les filles sont venues. (The girls came / the girls...

etc., as determined by the context. A related use is that of the predicative expression, as in sentences like the book is mine. Here mine may be considered...

Predicative programming is the original name of a formal method for program specification and refinement, more recently called a Practical Theory of Programming...

A secondary predicate is a (mostly adjectival) predicative expression that conveys information about the subject or the object but is not the main predicate...

e.g., The bird is in the tree. – is serves as a copula with a predicative expression not containing any other verb. Definitions of auxiliary verbs are...

him, someone gave him the ball, Mary was with him. When used as a predicative expression, i.e. as the complement of a form of the copula verb be, the subjective...

to suffer in silence. (infinitival clauses used as subject and predicative expression) I decided to bathe myself. (infinitival clause used as object)...

"To err is human" or "To know me is to love me." the object of a predicative expression: "What you should do is make a list" or "To know me is to love me"...

antecedent "(the) man" is the object of "saw". In the position of predicative expression, i.e. as the complement of forms of the copula "be", the form "who"...

book to Nikolai. A subject complement (variously called a predicative expression, predicative, predicate noun or adjective, or complement) appears in a...

Systems I". The paradox was also a motivation for the development of predicative mathematics. The original statement of the paradox, due to Richard (1905)...

(何これ？（これは何ですか？）, what [is] this?). In Māori, the zero copula can be used in predicative expressions and with continuous verbs (many of which take a copulative verb...

introducing ad hoc aspects. One example is C++ template specialization. In a predicative type system (also known as a prenex polymorphic system), type variables...