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Meanings of predicate in English

Russian
сказуемое
Portuguese
predicado nominal
Spanish
predicado
Catalan
predicat
Wikidata

Concept of mathematical logic.

сказуемое
Catalan
sintagma verbal

One of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements.

sintagma verbal
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Examples for "predicates"
Examples for "predicates"
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The tendency of their philosophy was to deny to Being all predicates.
Parmenides
2
The pure reason judges according to the predicates true and false.
An Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant
3
For other subjects and predicates, the teacher is referred to Lessons 7 and
Graded Lessons in English / An Elementary English Grammar Consis...
4
For one is conceived as one, in a sense which excludes all predicates.
Parmenides
5
Attributives can only be used as predicates, not as subjects, e.g.
Deductive Logic
Portuguese
proclamar
Catalan
proclamar
Spanish
proclamar

To affirm or declare as an attribute or quality of.

proclamar

Involve as a necessary condition of consequence; as in logic.

Usage of predicate in English
1
Name the subject and the predicate in each of the following sentences:-
An English Grammar
2
Therefore the middle term must be the predicate and is consequently undistributed.
Deductive Logic
3
The added predicate is as true of him as the earlier ones.
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
4
A long subject is often separated from the predicate by a comma.
The Verbalist / A Manual Devoted to Brief Discussions of the Rig...
5
One term would stand for a subject, and another for a predicate.
Lives of the Necromancers
6
Are we therefore to predicate original depravity of man's heart and soul?
What Is and What Might Be / A Study of Education in General and ...
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You know, of course, what a subject and a predicate is.
The new yorker
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Of course I remember, but you seem to have forgotten the predicate nominative.
The Death and Life of Charlie St. Cloud
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In the first place, it is never used to predicate a quality directly.
The Soul of the Far East
10
We ADD, both to the subject and to the predicate part of reality.
Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking
11
The predicate indivisible, though negative in form, has highly positive consequences.
Evolution and Ethics, and Other Essays
12
The subject and predicate are the two terms, or boundaries, of a proposition.
Deductive Logic
13
The adjective used as predicate immediately follows the noun, without a substantive verb.
The Mafulu: Mountain People of British New Guinea
14
Those were some of the so-called predicate acts underlying their racketeering conspiracy conviction.
Reuters
15
The predicate, however, need not always be used in intension, e.g.
Deductive Logic
16
By the addition of such a predicate, therefore, it becomes a synthetical judgement.
The Critique of Pure Reason
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