Please tell me the name of parts

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Anonymous  #421335  Thu, 20 Sep 07 01:20 AM

Please tell me the names of parts.

1. This is John/an apple.

2. There is John/an apple.

3. That person/thing is John/an apple.

  
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Philip  #421688  Thu, 20 Sep 07 04:28 PM
 Anonymous wrote:

Please tell me the names of parts.

1. This is John/an apple.

2. There is John/an apple.

3. That person/thing is John/an apple.

???  Are you looking for the term "predicate nominative" (the word in the predicate/verb that renames the subject of the sentence)?
  
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