Harner pointed out that "Colwell was almost entirely concerned with the question whether anarthrous predicate nouns were definite or indefinite, and he did not discuss at any length the problem of their qualitative significance."
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Predicate noun
Synonyms for "predicate noun" (14 found)
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9 entriesattributioncomputing conceptgrammatical unitlinguistic elementlogic conceptlogical termprogramming constructspeech actverb
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13 entriesCollocations
10 entriescomplete predicategrammatical predicatepredicate a claimpredicate a conclusionpredicate on evidencepredicated on datapredicates thatpredicative nounsimple predicatesubject and predicate
Inflections
3 entriesDerivations
7 entriesSample sentences
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