predicative

How To Use predicative In A Sentence

• predicatively used adjectives
• A curious fact about adjectives and the way they modify nominals is that very often predicative uses have a more limited range of meanings than the attributive uses.
• ‘Fast’ and ‘big’ are what Geach has called attributive adjectives; ‘brown’ is called a predicative adjective.
• One is used as an attribute; the other is used as a predicative.
• There are analyst overconfidence and underreaction studies that seem to show predicative power. Fama vs. Thaler, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
• In English you can take not only an adjunct but also a predicative complement and prepose them (pop them at the front of the clause) for a special effect.
• 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.
• A complex name is analysable sometimes into a predicative description (rhêma) of its object, sometimes into a complete statement (logos) about it. Plato's Cratylus
• 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
• The next relevant fact is that many adjectives take up more than a single word, as in the following predicative examples.