ABSTRACT
Nominal complement which in some sentence patterns forms the predicate of the sentence in conjunction with a semantically weak copular verb such as to be, to stay, to become, to seem. Depending on its form, there are three types of predicative complements: (a) predicate nouns: He is my friend: (b) predicate adjectives: It’s getting dark; and (c) predicate clauses: What we didn’t reckon with was that he would abandon us so quickly. Depending on syntactic and semantic relations, predicative complements are divided into (1) predicative nominatives: Philip is a student and (2) predicative objects: We consider him a gifted scientist.
