What is a predicate?

A predicate is the portion of a clause, excluding the subject, that expresses something about the subject.

• What is a compound predicate?

• What is a syntactic function?

Crystal 1980 280

Hartmann and Stork 1972 182

Pei and Gaynor 1954 173

Pike and Pike 1982 40

Mish 1991 926

Crystal 1985 241–242

Context for this page:

• Concept module: predicate
• In overview module: Glossary (Linguistics): P
• In modular book: Glossary of linguistic terms, by Eugene E. Loos (general editor), Susan Anderson (editor), Dwight H., Day, Jr. (editor), Paul C. Jordan (editor), and J. Douglas Wingate (editor)
• In bookshelf: Linguistics

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