![]() ![]() Step 1: What is a Subject and a Predicate?Ī subject is any person or thing (noun/pronoun) one talks about in a sentence. Recap of the Basics: – Subject, Predicate, Subject Complement, and Linking Verbs We’ll first understand what subjects and predicates are, what complements are, a small recap of our nouns and adjectives, and so on before we jump to our main topic – Predicate Nominative and Predicate Adjective. (I hope now you don’t belong to the “ We hate Math” club.) Both have a structure and determined steps to be followed. Perhaps we should break it down into small pieces – like a mathematical sum! I would always tell my kids to treat Grammar like Math. Well, understanding complements is not easy without knowing the basics. Because the predicate adjective is a description, not a noun, it cannot replace the subject, it can only describe. ![]() Also, because “human” is a noun so it can replace “I” as the subject.Įxample: God is charitable.Here the adjective “charitable” describes the subject “God”. ![]() The predicate adjective can’t be made the subject of the sentence.Įxample: I am just a human.Here the subject “I” can be renamed as the noun “human”, because I = human. The predicate nominative can be used interchangeably and made the subject of the sentence. In modern English, standalone adjectives don’t have a case. Uses an adjective or adjectival phrase as a subject complement. Uses a noun or a noun phrase as a subject complement. While both fall under the category of subject complement, they have different word classes. Just when I was settling into the understanding of Predicate, I was introduced to a new concept of – Predicate Nominative and Predicate Adjective.īoth the phrases sound so similar, so the question arises – how are these two terms different? This is the definition I carried for many years before I realized what a predicate actually is. Before we even know what Predicate is, they introduce us to its annoying children too – Predicate Nominative & Predicate Adjective! I remember being taught as a kid that the subject in a sentence is the one we are talking about and all the remaining part is the “predicate”. The word Predicate starts popping up here and there when we start studying grammar. ![]()
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