(In the previous sentence, the predicate is everything except "the predicate," which is the subject).
This Bostonian inelegance was made up for by a series of words neatly inscribed above the various elements of the sentence, reading: "Subject, predicate, article, predicate noun".
Whether he likes it or not, that sentence predicates freedom from unwarranted control and intrusion by the state, because a person cannot make free choices if the state is at the same seeking greater and greater influence in the decisions they make, and claims greater and greater knowledge about their movements, communications and behaviour.
A wide bulk of evidence is presented that these constructions have a subject predicate configuration, and involve predicate raising to a Focus Phrase, yielding a partition of the sentence where the predicate is focus, and the subject, a background topic.
Because the only predicate symbol, R, is in the scope of this quantifier, the sentence has no predicate symbols open to interpretation.
On the first, an omniscient being would know all truths, propositions expressed by present-tensed sentences predicate properties of whatever time has a time-haecceity T, but they and all other propositions are eternally true.
These theorists combine the positive claims of expressivism that moral sentences are conventional devices for the expression of pro-attitudes and that moral attitudes are (partly) non-cognitive with features of cognitivism that moral sentences predicate properties and that moral attitudes are (partly) cognitive.
Just as baldness comes in degrees so too, it is argued, does the truth of sentences predicating baldness of things.
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").
As regards syntactic structures, the Mandarin Chinese existential negator 沒有 méiyǒu verb can appear as the sole predicate of the sentence, as shown in (33).
Modal sentences can be either composite or divided, depending on where the modal term occurs: if it is either the subject or the predicate of the sentence, while the other term is an embedded sentence in nominalized form (in 'dictum' form, in the medieval terminology), then the sentence is a composite modal sentence.
