单词 | predicate adjective |
释义 | > as lemmaspredicate adjective predicate adjective n. ΚΠ 1855 Jrnl. Amer. Oriental Soc. 5 146 An adjective used as a predicate never takes the article. This is of course founded on the general principles of language, the predicate adjective being abstract and in some degree indefinite. 1887 W. W. Goodwin Elem. Greek Gram. iii. 196 The predicate adjective may be connected with its noun by the copula..or by a copulative verb. 1992 Amer. Speech 67 49 There is an almost equal balance of is absence and is presence before predicate adjectives and locatives in the New York City data. < as lemmas |
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