Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Predicating; affirming; asserting; expressing affirmation or predication: as, a predicative term.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Expressing affirmation or predication; affirming; predicating, .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective grammar Used after a
verb , as apredicate ; contrasted withattributive . - noun grammar An element of the
predicate of a sentence which supplements thesubject orobject by means of theverb . Predicatives may benominal oradjectival .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of adjectives; relating to or occurring within the predicate of a sentence
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Examples
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An adjective used just after a noun is called a predicative adjective - "The princess was very beautiful."
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An adjective used just after a noun is called a predicative adjective - "The princess was very beautiful."
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But even there I think I would be puzzled by any use that wasn't both negated and predicative, which is not the case with the hardier "untoward".
waste 2008
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When an adjective follows a form of be or a few other verbs which I don’t want to talk about, it is known as a predicative adjective.
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"predicative" propositional functions of the lowest type, would have or lack "third truth" depending on whether its allowable substitution instances have second (or lower) truth.
Russell's Logical Atomism Klement, Kevin 2005
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There are analyst overconfidence and underreaction studies that seem to show predicative power.
Fama vs. Thaler, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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I used an attributive, not a predicative adjective.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It” 2010
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I used an attributive, not a predicative adjective.
The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It” 2010
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I think I agree with you, Rick, that the gerund in a sentence like “I heard him singing” functions like a predicative adjective, much like “nude” in “I saw the protesters nude” or “happy” in “Cookies make me happy.”
(Almost) Zero Tolerance, and linearly separable blogrolls « Motivated Grammar 2009
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I don't think it's accurate to say behavioral theories have no predicative power.
Fama vs. Thaler, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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