Literary notes about predicate (AI summary)
The word “predicate” is employed in literature both as a technical term in grammar and as an abstract concept in logic. In grammatical works, it is used to describe the part of a sentence that tells something about the subject, whether that be a verb–verb phrase forming the simple predicate or an extended construction involving complements like predicate nominatives and predicate adjectives ([1], [2], [3]). Its usage may further extend to compound forms, where modifiers and multiple elements combine to complete the meaning attributed to the subject ([4], [5]). In philosophical discourse, the term takes on an abstract dimension, referring to the property or quality ascribed to a subject within a judgment, independent of its lexical content ([6], [7]).
- Tell whether the simple subject is a noun or a pronoun, and whether the simple predicate is a verb or a verb-phrase.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - The subject of a sentence designates the person, place, or thing that is spoken of; the predicate is that which is said of the subject.
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - In the third, the subject is rain ; the predicate, is falling .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - A simple sentence with compound predicate often differs very slightly from a compound sentence .
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - A sentence may consist of but two words,—a noun or pronoun (the subject) and a verb (the predicate).
— from An Advanced English Grammar with Exercises by Frank Edgar Farley and George Lyman Kittredge - A logical predicate may be what you please, even the subject may be predicated of itself; for logic pays no regard to the content of a judgement.
— from The Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant - It is one thing to perceive an ill-determined form and quite another to attribute to it a precise general predicate.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana
