| 单词 | predicate nominal |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspredicate nominal predicate nominal n. and adj. ΚΠ 1960 R. B. Lees Gram. Eng. Nominalizations i. 5 Nominals occur as high-order constituents of the predicate, as objects of transitive verbs and predicate nominals in predicative type sentences. 1965 N. Chomsky Aspects Theory Syntax iv. 181 ‘Bill is a lawyer.’ The Predicate-Nominal of the latter is not singular, in the base structure. 1992 Amer. Speech 67 49 Forms of is are used a majority of the time in predicate nominal environments... 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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