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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

(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...

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

(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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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"...

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 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"...

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...

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

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)...

function as subjects of verbs, adverbs, or, with vocative -a, as a predicative expression: šalʸʔáyc ʔamé·k "the sand is high," literally "sand it-is-high...

(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...