Predicate-nominative
noun
1.
(in Latin, Greek, and certain other languages) a predicate noun or adjective in the nominative case.
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- Predicate-noun
noun, Grammar. 1. a noun used in the predicate with a copulative verb or a factitive verb and having the same referent as the subject of the copulative verb or the direct object of the factitive verb, as in She is the mayor or They elected her mayor.
- Predicate-objective
noun, Grammar. 1. objective complement.
- Predication
verb (used with object), predicated, predicating. 1. to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert. 2. Logic. to affirm or assert (something) of the subject of a proposition. to make (a term) the predicate of such a proposition. 3. to connote; imply: His retraction predicates a change of attitude. 4. to found or derive (a statement, action, etc.); […]
- Predicative
verb (used with object), predicated, predicating. 1. to proclaim; declare; affirm; assert. 2. Logic. to affirm or assert (something) of the subject of a proposition. to make (a term) the predicate of such a proposition. 3. to connote; imply: His retraction predicates a change of attitude. 4. to found or derive (a statement, action, etc.); […]
- Predicator
noun, Grammar. 1. the verbal element of a clause or sentence. noun 1. (in systemic grammar) the part of a sentence or clause containing the verbal group; one of the four or five major components into which clauses can be divided, the others being subject, object, adjunct, and (in some versions of the grammar) complement