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2. Predicate (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   Predicates may also be collective or distributive. Collective predicates require their subjects to be somehow plural, while distributive ones do not. An example of a collective predicate is "formed a line". This predicate can only stand in a nexus with a plural subject: The students formed a line. — Collective predicate appears with plural ...

3. Sentence diagram - Wikipedia

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   The subject is written on the left, the predicate on the right, separated by a vertical bar that extends through the base. The predicate must contain a verb , and the verb either requires other sentence elements to complete the predicate, permits them to do so, or precludes them from doing so.

4. Sentence clause structure - Wikipedia

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   The predicate is a verb phrase that consists of more than one word. In the backyard, the dog barked and howled at the cat. This simple sentence has one independent clause which contains one subject, dog, and one predicate, barked and howled at the cat. This predicate has two verbs, known as a compound predicate: barked and howled. (This should ...

5. Sentence (linguistics) - Wikipedia

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   A major sentence is a regular sentence; it has a subject and a predicate, e.g. "I have a ball." In this sentence, one can change the persons, e.g. "We have a ball." However, a minor sentence is an irregular type of sentence that does not contain a main clause, e.g. "Mary!", "Precisely so.", "Next Tuesday evening after it gets dark."

6. Clause - Wikipedia

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   The subject-predicate relationship is clearly present in the underlined strings. The expression on the right is a predication over the noun phrase immediately to its left. While the subject-predicate relationship is indisputably present, the underlined strings do not behave as single constituents, a fact that undermines their status as clauses ...

7. Predicative expression - Wikipedia

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   A predicative expression (or just predicative) is part of a clause predicate, and is an expression that typically follows a copula or linking verb, e.g. be, seem, appear, or that appears as a second complement of a certain type of verb, e.g. call, make, name, etc. [1] The most frequently acknowledged types of predicative expressions are predicative adjectives (also predicate adjectives) and ...

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   Family and friends are back at home and work following the holiday weekend, but fridges may still be packed full of Thanksgiving leftovers.For folks wondering how long the turkey, potatoes and ...

9. Subject (grammar) - Wikipedia

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   A simple sentence is defined as the combination of a subject and a predicate, but if no subject is present, how can one have a sentence? Subject-less clauses are absent from English for the most part, but they are not unusual in related languages. In German, for instance, impersonal passive clauses can lack a recognizable subject, e.g.