Predicative complement
Predicative complements
In linguistics, complement refers only to the predicative complement. A predicative complement is the complement that is predicated by a predicate. A predicate is the completer of a sentence; a predicator (verb) + complement. The term predicate complement refers to the fact that the predication defends on the attribution of a subject and its predicator (a verb, verb string, or compound verb).[1] The predicative complement consists of few contrasting varieties:
- Object complement (common complement)
- Predicative nominative (noun,nominal,pronominal; common in SUB or OBJ complement)
- Predicative adjective (or adjectival, common in subject complement)
- Predicative adverb (or adverbial, common in intransitive predication)
- Predicative adjunct (optional complement)