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Latest revision as of 00:22, 21 April 2024
Perhaps more generally, a predicate is "a thing said of a subject".
This appears in many fields, often with meanings like
the things/properites you're trying to claim, the properties you have, the things you are predicated on (conditions), dependency/component of a larger thing, placeholders.
In linguistics, predicate is more specific, but has two different takes:
- the part of the sentence that states a property of a subject - basically everything but that subject
- ...or just the verb, the one that does the heavy lifting
It helps not to forget people use it in either meaning.
There is also a related, but somewhat more precise meaning in parsers [1]
Predicate forms
Predicate somethings refer to being part of the predicate of the clause/sentence, rather than e.g. in the attributive form.
For example, predicate adjectives are adjectives that are linked via a copula, such as in "The idea seems great" and "The sky is blue". The attributive adjective forms would be "The great idea" and "The blue sky." .
predicate nominatives (a.k.a predicate nouns) refer to nouns and pronouns that are used as objects, refer back to the subject, and identify or describe it/them.
For example:
- Ms. Hayes is our teacher.
- Is our teacher Ms. Hayes or Ms. Rose?
- Our teacher is who?