Sentence examples for the predicate from inspiring English sources

In the second kind of fundamental predication, the predicate indicates inherence in a subject.

Verb and complement together form the predicate.

Make the predicate noun "a cause célèbre".

(In the previous sentence, the predicate is everything except "the predicate," which is the subject).

Pakistan does not have the predicate of such pervasive lawlessness.

More important, the predicate names the predicament of the subject.

Don't be led astray by the predicate noun "reports".

misled the F.B.I. as to the predicate and to say that D.O.E.

"I don't think the predicate has been laid," said Mr. Lott, who supports the measure.

Congress thereby explicitly stated the predicate for the exercise of its Commerce Clause power.

When we release our report, it will set the predicate for intelligence reforms to come".