Sentence examples for predicate adjective from inspiring English sources

In Proto-Uralic the copula verb "be" was lacking in simple predicate adjective or noun sentences, although the predicate was probably marked to agree with the subject.

H4Lvd SV SUPV VERB BE 72% verb: Used as a copula to connect a subject and its predicate adjective, predicate nominative, etc. in order to describe, identify, or amplify the subject..

Apparently both the subject and the predicate adjective, 'The Just' and 'just', refer to the same thing, namely the Form of Justice.

In investigating self-predication statements, perhaps it is again easiest to distinguish three factors, the subject or subject term, 'The Just', the linking verb, 'is', and the predicate adjective 'just'just

Their is possessive without apostrophe or s, except as a predicate adjective, where it becomes theirs.

A semantically significant distinction between inflected and uninflected predicate adjectives has emerged, while the difference between weak and strong adjectives, a characteristic of other Germanic languages, has effectively disappeared.

An attributive adjective comes, usually, before the noun and modifies it without an intervening verb ("a delicious stew"); a predicative adjective forms the predicate of the sentence, after a verb ("This stew is delicious").

Nominalized verb formations such as verbal nouns, participles, and predicative adjectives probably harken back to the protolanguage and can be reconstructed for predicates expressing state rather than action.

It is wholly unjustifiable to take up a complex, to do any work we please upon it by analysis, and then simply predicate as an adjective of the given these results of our abstraction.

For example, both ' vascular' and ' vasculature' are angiogenesis tissue entities, but the former is more likely to be a predicate as an adjective, whereas the latter, a noun, is more likely to be an argument.

However, he makes sure to use as a predicate term a substantival adjective in its neuter form, because only in this way can it be made apparent that the form signified by the predicate term is not directly present in the subject, but is indirectly attributed to it, through its individuals (In Cat., cap. de substantia, pp. 288 90).