How To Use Predicative In A Sentence
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predicatively used adjectives
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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.
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‘Fast’ and ‘big’ are what Geach has called attributive adjectives; ‘brown’ is called a predicative adjective.
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One is used as an attribute; the other is used as a predicative.
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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
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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.
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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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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
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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
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The next relevant fact is that many adjectives take up more than a single word, as in the following predicative examples.
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Some adjectives are predicative only, as with afraid, loath, and aware in: Your brother is afraid of them, My friends seem loath to interfere, The manager became aware of her attitude.
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Parallel to the division of adjunct, we may divide sub-clauses into attributive clauses, predicative clauses and adverbial clauses.
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It is true, these are all good news, but they are not equal or even in their indicatory or predicative value.
David Ehrenstein Claims "We're Even" In Gay Marriage Fight
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The second pair are predicative, and follow linking verbs such as be, seem, become.
The Times Literary Supplement
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Pullum explains in precise and formal terms: "In English you can take not only an adjunct but also a predicative complement or a nonfinite catenative complement and prepose them pop them at the front of the clause for a special effect.
Archive 2008-02-01
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In the latter, after the noun and verb, the adjective is called predicative.
Times, Sunday Times
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‘Fast’ and ‘big’ are what Geach has called attributive adjectives; ‘brown’ is called a predicative adjective.
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˜Fast™ and ˜big™ are what Geach has called attributive adjectives; ˜brown™ is called a predicative adjective.
Existence
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It'serves as the subject ( object, predicate, predicative, attribute, adverbial, object complement ).
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Parallel to the division of adjunct, we may divide sub-clauses into attributive clauses, predicative clauses and adverbial clauses.
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The exclusion of associative adjectives from predicative position is an automatic result.
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The past participle as the Attribute Predicative and the object complement.
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That version can't be used predicatively: "This is big deal" might be the boast of a Russian who never mastered the English determiner system, but it's not something that a native speaker would say "to express contempt for something regarded as impressive by another person". idiomatic contempt aside, the anarthrous exclamatory fragment "big deal" is syntactically regular, in that there are lots of other adjective+noun combinations used in a similar way.
Language Log
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For example, the usual definition of least upper bound is impredicative, since it characterizes a number in terms of a collection of upper bounds, and the defined number is a member of that collection.
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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.
The Volokh Conspiracy » It Takes Too, Baby
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Adorno argues that the belief that true thinking may simply be equated with correct predicative thinking both reflects and enables the imperative to a universal exchangeability of objects within organised economic life.
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Principals'transformational leadership and transactional leadership had predicative efficacy for the teachers'job satisfaction.
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The word YOU's attribute is dynamic; it is different because the element which behind the word YOU is different. It can be verb, preparative predicative object verb and adverbial confirmative sign.
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So, just as the existential and predicative uses are not unrelated, neither are the predicative, identity, and generic implication uses unrelated.
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It should be noted that the same is true of ordinary predicative adjectives - further evidence of their special similarity.
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These effects can be explained if we consider more closely the function of attributive and predicative adjectives.
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Having said that, however, it has also to be said that he regarded the last two as closely related, with the predicative use being marked by an element of identity, and the identity use being marked by an element of predication.
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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”
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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
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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
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In contrast to Aristotle, Brentano emphasizes the importance of existential judgements with only one term, and claims that predicative judgements are a special case of existential ones.
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Humphreys emphasizes that fusion is a ‘real physical operation, not a mathematical or logical operation on predicative representations of properties.’
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Pre - predicative subject long, often flip natural convergence.
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For polymorphonuclear leucocytes count of gram stained cervical smear, the sensitivity was 23.1%, specificity 84.5%, positive predictive value (PPV) 7.7% and negative predicative value (NPV) 93.8%.
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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
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The word YOU's attribute is dynamic; it is different because the element which behind the word YOU is different. It can be verb, preparative predicative object verb and adverbial confirmative sign.
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`red' is a predicative adjective in `the apple is red'
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An adjective used just after a noun is called a predicative adjective - "The princess was very beautiful.
The Hindu - Front Page
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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”
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In the Oxford English Grammar, Sidney Greenbaum writes: "If the copular verb is BE and if the subject predicative identifies the subject, the subject and subject predicative can change places.
On all and all
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Also in predicative use, it developed into an adjective as base, cowardly, vile.
Times, Sunday Times
