What does the predicative mean?

Predicate, belonging to subject complement and grammatical nouns, refers to words or clauses that explain the identity, nature, character, characteristics and state of the subject. Predicates are usually served by nouns, adjectives, prepositional phrases, gerunds, infinitives and adverbs, and are usually located after the copula (be).

Predicates are called dominance list structure in traditional grammar, for example, she is beautiful is dominance list structure, tie verb is be verb, and beautiful adjective is predicate. When a clause is placed in this position of a beautiful adjective, it becomes a sentence.

Extended data

The conjunctions connecting predicative clauses are: that, what, who, when, where, which, why, where, how, who, what, what and so on. Some things are because, like, like and so on.

1, predicative clauses must use declarative word order. The question is when he can arrive at the hotel.

2. if cannot be used, but if/when can be used to connect predicative clauses (except if) and guide object clauses. Whether it should be used after prepositions or at the beginning of sentences to guide predicative clauses, subject clauses and appositive clauses.

3. Different from the object clause, in a complex sentence with predicative clauses, the tense of the main clause and the tense of the clause can be inconsistent.

4. It cannot be omitted in predicative clauses. Predicative clauses can only be placed after the main clause, and the verbs in the main clause can only be connecting verbs. When noun clauses are placed after verbs such as be, they are called predicative clauses.