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Definition of Predicative
1. Adjective. Of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence. "`red' is a predicative adjective in `the apple is red'"
Definition of Predicative
1. a. Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, as, a predicative term.
Definition of Predicative
1. Adjective. (context: grammar of an adjectival or nominal) Used after a verb, as a predicate; (non-gloss definition contrasted with attributive.) ¹
2. Noun. (context: grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predicative
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predicative
Literary usage of Predicative
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Infinitive in Anglo-Saxon by Morgan Callaway (1913)
"247, in Old High German, as in Anglo- Saxon, the predicative passive infinitive
is normally turned by an active objective infinitive. In Aug. serm. ..."
2. Syntax of Classical Greek from Homer to Demosthenes by Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve, Charles William Emil Miller (1911)
"predicative Position of Article, Substantive, and Adjective, 627 sqq. Limitations of
predicative Position, 628. predicative Position in Phrases that have to ..."
3. English Grammar: The English Language in Its Elements and Forms ; with a by William Chauncey Fowler (1855)
"A predicative COMBINATION, as, "Washington wrote," constitutes a simple sentence
in which there is a subject connected with a predicate. ..."
4. Critical Grammar of the Hebrew Language by Isaac Nordheimer (1841)
"The former we shall accordingly term predicative and the latter ... The predicative
particles, which are simple in their con- struction, and exercise but ..."
5. A Grammar of the Greek Language by William Edward Jelf (1881)
"predicative construction of words. OF AGREEMENT. §. 377. The verb agrees with
the subject in person and number ; the predicative adjective (or substantive ..."
6. A Comparative Grammar of the Anglo-Saxon Language: In which Its Forms are by Francis Andrew March (1877)
"The copulative verb or auxiliary precedes the predicative noun or verb. ...
The verb or predicative noun may begin a clause for emphasis : (verb very common ..."
7. Live Language Lessons by Howard Roscoe Driggs (1917)
"173 predicative AND NON-predicative VERBS The action or being expressed by ...
Verbs that assume are called non-predicative verbs.1 They will not make the ..."
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