Re: whats a complete predicate??

Mister Micawber — Fri, 09 May 2008 04:00:46 GMT

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A complete predicate is all of the sentence except for the subject.

An appositive is 'an expression that has 'the same function and the same relation to other elements in the sentence [as a previous noun], the second expression identifying or supplementing the first. In Washington, our first president, the phrase our first president is in apposition with Washington.'

Absolute (besides being a kind of vodka) probably refers to absolute construction, a phrasal structure somewhat like an appositive, in that it has no grammatical connection to the rest of the sentence: The day being sunny, we decided to go on a picnic.

A non-clause (not a term I am familiar with) appears to be any phrase or nonfinite clause that is not a finite clause. I found these examples on the Web:

Clauses	Non-Clauses
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I went home	Going home
Because I went home	Alone and depressed
She is pretty	Becoming pretty
If she skips the appointment	Skipping the appointment
The boy hit the ball	Light weight and fluffy
While the parents cheered	Cheering parents
She laughed	The homework done
That he was wrong	On the table
Who wore the hat	Absent from class
Which we respected	The president of the club
Where the boys found the missing glove	One of the most admired members of the class

whats a complete predicate??

Anonymous — Fri, 09 May 2008 03:20:48 GMT

what is a complete predicate, appositive, absolute, and a non clause??

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Re: whats a complete predicate??

whats a complete predicate??