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The subject complement is bold in the following examples: The lake was a tranquil pool.– Predicative nominal; Here, was is a copula (a concomitant form of be) that links the subject complement a tranquil pool (which has the head noun pool), to the subject the lake (which has the head noun lake).
In many non-theoretical grammars, the terms subject complement (also called a predicative of the subject) and object complement are employed to denote the predicative expressions (predicative complements), such as predicative adjectives and nominals (also called a predicative nominative or predicate nominative), that serve to assign a property to a subject or an object: [3]
The historical plural ending for adjectives is -i. However, in late Quenya, adjectives ending in - a instead have this - a replaced by - ë . Moreover, the adjective laurëa ("golden") there has the plural form laurië (in laurië lantar lassi , literary "golden fall (the) leaves", which in singular would have been *'laurëa lanta lassë ...
The form a is used before a word beginning with a consonant sound. That can be notated as "__ C". The "distribution" (usage according to environments) of the forms an and a is "complementary" because of three factors: (1) an is used if a is not used; (2) a is used if an is not used;
complisult, from compliment and insult [2] cosplay, from costume and play [5] disastrophe, from disaster and catastrophe [2] drunkorexia, from drunk and anorexia; dumbfound, from dumb and confound [26] electrocute, from electric and execute [5] Farmageddon, from farm and Armageddon, title of book; flimmer, from flicker and glimmer [2]
A handwritten note atop a baby Jesus figurine, anonymously dropped off at a fire station in Fort Collins, Colorado on Dec. 19, 2024. The figurine had been reported as stolen on Dec. 15, 2024.
Mattie Stepanek first learned about Jimmy Carter when he was just 6 years old. While most kids his age might not be interested in a former U.S. president, Mattie was different. "He said, 'Mommy ...
So can those ending in -ch / -tch (e.g. "the French", "the Dutch") provided they are pronounced with a 'ch' sound (e.g. the adjective Czech does not qualify). Many place-name adjectives and many demonyms are also used for various other things, sometimes with and sometimes without one or more additional words.