ABSTRACT
Examples of various ways in which substantives, adjectives and pronouns may be referred to a past time:
28.1(1). Verbs are not the only words that can be combined with a predicntive; though this is not recognized in the usual grammatical terminology, we must say that
as and some prepositions in many combinations take a predicative: the meaning of this will become clear from the following disquisition, which will show that we have here something that is really parallel to the use of predicatives after verbs (vol. III, ch. XVII and XVIII): in some, but not in all, cases we might, in the old-fashioned way of explaining grammatical facts, say that some word like being might be supplied in thought before the predicative, but this is really superfluous. (On the comprehen8ive term 'particle' used here see PG 87; it allows us to class as with to, etc. without having to discuss whether it is a conjunction or not in such combinations.)
In the same way as with other predicatives (III 17.0) we have here a distinction bAt ween predicatives of being (static) and predicatives of becoming (kinetic).
