predicative
Meaning of predicative
noun
- (grammar) An element of the predicate of a sentence which supplements the subject or object by means of the verb. Predicatives may be nominal or adjectival.
- (grammar) In some languages, a special part of speech used as a predicate and denoting a state of being.
- (grammar, of an adjectival or nominal phrase) Modifying a noun while in a predicate phrase, which predicate phrase is other than the noun phrase and occurs after a verb, as a predicate; contrasted with attributive.
In the sentence, ‘This house is big’, ‘big’ is predicative, whereas in ‘This is a big house’, it is attributive.
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Hyphenation of predicative
pred-ica-tive
- It consists of 3 syllables and 11 chars.
- predicative is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
predicative antonyms
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Translation of predicative
- German: prädikativ
- Italian: predicativo
- Spanish: predicativo
Words that rhyme with predicative
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