What does the predicative mean?

However, in traditional grammar, it is called cardinality table structure. For example, she is beautiful. It is a cardinal table structure, the copula verb is a be verb, the beautiful adjective is called a predicative, and she is followed by a sentence, which is called a predicative clause.

Grammatical nouns belong to subject complement, which refers to words or clauses that explain the identity, nature, character, characteristics and state of the subject. Predicates are usually served by nouns, adjectives, prepositional phrases, gerunds, infinitives and adverbs, which usually follow the verb (be).

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First, the difference between infinitive and participle as predicative.

Infinitive and gerund as predicative are equivalent to a noun as predicative, which means to answer the subject "what is it"; A participle as a predicative is equivalent to an adjective as a predicative, meaning to answer the subject "how".

Second, the difference between infinitive and gerund as predicative.

Although infinitive and gerund are both used as predicative to answer the question "What is it", there are still some differences between them. The infinitive as a predicative emphasizes concrete, imminent and one-off actions; Gerund as predicative emphasizes abstract, frequent and general actions.

Third, the difference between present participle and past participle as predicative.

Both the present participle and the past participle are used as predicative to answer the subject "how". The present participle indicates the characteristics of the subject, and the past participle indicates the state of the subject.