Predicate Nominative

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Sat Apr 6 22:05:31 EST 2002



In a message dated 4/6/02 7:58:48 PM, glensmail at juno.com writes:

>Hello all,
>
>Can anyone provide me with information regarding "predicate nominatives"?
> How does the predicate nominative function and how do we identify it?
> I
>would appreciate as much information on this as I can get because the few
>grammars that I have are pretty sparse.
>
Glen, the predicate nominative is a substantive in the nominative case used 
with a verb to be (in Greek EIMI, GINOMAI, or hUPARCW some also count 
nominatives used with KALEW). The predicate nominative modifies (some say 
renames) the subject even though it is a noun or noun substitute. eg.hO QEOS 
AGAPH ESTIN, "God is love." God is the subject and love is the pred. nom.

Carlton Winbery
Louisiana College



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